. What’s New? .
| September, 2011 | "The Literary Garden: a Book List," on the lovely new book site, Canadian Bookshelf http://canadianbookshelf.com/Blog/2011/08/08/The-Literary-Garden-A-Book-List-by-Merilyn-Simonds |
| Fall, 2011 | "The Literary Garden: a Book List," on the lovely new book site, Canadian Bookshelf http://canadianbookshelf.com/Blog/2011/08/08/The-Literary-Garden-A-Book-List-by-Merilyn-Simonds |
| Fall, 2011 | "A Scent of a Garden," excerpt from A
New Leaf: Growing with my Garden in the Banff Centre's online magazine BoulderPavement www.boulderpavement.ca/issue004/the-scent-of-a-garden/ |
| January, 2012 | Release of paperback edition of A
New Leaf: Growing with my Garden, published by Doubleday
Canada. Watch for the gorgeous photo of my woodland garden! |
| January, 2012 | Release of In the Flesh, a creative nonfiction anthology of writing about the human body. Available for preorder from the publisher, Brindle & Glass at www.brindleandglass.com. My body part? See "Twenty Questions." |
| Summer, 2012 | Release of The Paradise Project, a limited edition collection of flash fiction, hand-set and printed on an 1880s hand-operated printing press, using paper made from plants in my garden. |
From Reviews of A New Leaf
“Merilyn Simonds writes of her soul–feeding experiences across an entire
gardening year…it doesn’t take long for the book’s hard, black lines of type to
disappear, and for the reader to be spellbound, completely submerged in her special world.”
The Globe and Mail, April 16, 2011
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Simonds wears her gardening erudition lightly, and never intimidates…even gardeners with limited space will find much to delight them in this book. So will complete non-gardeners: like an armchair bullfighter or ballet dancer, you don't have to do it to enjoy reading about it.
The Montreal Gazette, April 23, 2011
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…a vibrant, exuberant hybrid—part memoir, part literary gardening essay.
More Magazine, May, 2011, "Q & A" page 30
. Interviews with Merilyn .
Profiles
"Viewpoint: Merilyn Simonds," a profile by Patricia Henderson in Kingston Life, Issue #5 www.mtls.ca/issue5/roundtable.php
On Gardening and Writing
Literature in Bloom: Merilyn Simonds in conversation with Amatoritsero Ede, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue #5 www.mtls.ca/issue5/roundtable.php
"Earthly Business," an interview in More Magazine, May 2011, page 30.
On Breakfast at the Exit Café: Travels Through America
Shelagh Rogers of CBC’s The Next Chapter talks with Merilyn & Wayne about life on the American road: Listen now »
“Two for the Road” in Open Book Ontario magazine www.openbooktoronto.com/magazine/fall_2010/articles/two_road
“Writers view America, Up Close and Personal” in Pique Newsmagazine, Whistler www.piquenewsmagazine.com/pique/index.php?cat=C_Entertainment&content=Breakfast+at+exit+cafe+1740
On The Holding
“This time, Merilyn Simonds chooses to tell stories as a novel,” by Sarah Crosbie, Kingston Whig–Standard, March 29, 2004.
“A Woman Walks Alone in the Woods,” by Paul Gessel, Ottawa Citizen, April 8, 2004.
“What we remember and what we've lost,” by Susan Walker, Toronto Star, May 9, 2004.
On The Lion in the Room Next Door
with Linda Richards at januarymagazine.com www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/simonds.html
with The Arts Today, CBC Radio. cbc.ca/insite/THE_ARTS_TODAY_TORONTO/1999/5/27.html
with BookTV, January 2000. www.chumlimited.com/ mediaed/ guidepage_booktv.asp?studyID=48
with David Bright, Ffwd Magazine, May 27, 1999. www.ffwdweekly.com/Issues/1999/0527/book1.html
On The Convict Lover
“Embellishing Private Lives,” by Val Ross, The Globe and Mail, May 4, 1996.
with Jess Joss, The Queen’s Journal Reader, November 8, 1996.
. Recent Articles on Her Work .
“Through a Windshield Darkly” by Mark Frutkin in the Literary Review
of Canada, December, 2010.
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. Recent Publications in Magazines and Journals .
“And the Oscar Goes to…” in EnRoute Magazine, December 2010. enroute.aircanada.com/en/articles/the-girls-from-campinas
“The Girls from Campinas” in enRoute magazine online at enroute.aircanada.com/en/articles/the-girls-from-campinas
“The Back Room” in Room Magazine: Past and Present, Volume 33.3, Fall 2010.
“Tree” “Fruit” “Earth” from The Paradise Project, The Antigonish Review, Summer 2009.
“Garden Suite” from The Paradise Project, Review 76: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Volume 41, No. 1, May, 2008.
. Media .
For interviews, please contact my publicist.
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