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An Evening With Canadian Author Susan Swan

Swan Switches Focus to Heroism By Joe Belanger  The following is an excerpt from the article in  The London Free Press. Monday, September 24, 2012 Susan Swan has explored a lot of issues during her long career as an author. And in her newest book, The Western Light, a sequel to her best-selling Wives of Bath, Swan [...]

Susan Swan’s Fall Book Tour Schedule for The Western Light

Here it is–a fall of national literary festivals and Ontario bookstores since The Western Light is set on the Georgian Bay and in Oil Springs and Petrolia. The pub date for reviews has been moved to September 22. With more events to come. (I will be taking lots of ginseng): Susan Swan and The Western [...]

Susan Swan and Bob Duff talk Hockey and Heroines with Marc Cote

Susan Swan Graces the Cover of The Quill & Quire

Click the below image for a sneak peak inside the magazine.    

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Join us as for the launch of The Western Light by Susan Swan, August 29th

Heroines of the Sexual Gothic Launches the Eden Mills Writers’ Festvial

Join us for the launch party of the 24th  Eden Mill’s Writers’ Festival with Heroines of the Sexual Gothic. Canadian author Susan Swan weaves the stories of her most celebrated characters with a personal narrative, revealing the intimate relationship between an author and her work. Joined by the ‘all girl folk noir quartet’, The Billie [...]

The Wives of Bath Goes Digital

For the first time since it was published in 1993, the ebook edition of the international bestseller The Wives of Bath is available through Amazon and Kindle and will soon be available on Kobo too. Click for more details or to get your copy now.

Heroines of the Sexual Gothic Celebrates the Toronto Women’s Bookstore

Coralie (left) of the Billie Hollies and Susan Swan (right) at Heroines of the Sexual Gothic On Thursday June 7th, Canadian author Susan Swan and the all girl folk-noir quartet, the Billie Hollies, delighted a packed house at The Toronto Women’s Bookstore with the forty-minute performance reading: Heroines of the Sexual Gothic. Why celebrate? Because [...]

Three shades of sex talk: female writers on the challenges of erotic fiction

This article is featured in the Globe and Mail June 2, 2012 and can be found at www.theglobeandmail.com SHEILA HETI, SUSAN SWAN, ZOE WHITTALL Sheila Heti: I find most books still shockingly puritanical. Can we try to understand why this is? Susan Swan: Does it come from a traditional Christian suspicion of the body? Let’s [...]