Cynthia answers eight questions about her writing in a Q & A with CBC Books. Read the full interview here.
“Cynthia Flood scatters fleeting moments of personal insight throughout the dozen intriguing stories of What Can You Do, her fifth collection.” ~ Brett Josef Grubisic, The Vancouver Sun, August 23,… read more →
Here’s my new book, out from Biblioasis! 49th Shelf wrote of this, my fifth collection, “And no one else does short stories quite like Cynthia Flood, whose latest collection, What… read more →
I’m joining fellow writers Kevin Hardcastle, Rufo Valencia, David Huebert, and Pino at the following venues: Thursday Sept 19 at Bryan Prince Books, 1060 King West, Hamilton, doors at 6:30,… read more →
What I’m Reading Now In September my book club will discuss Emma Donoghue’s novel Room, which I’d avoided reading because it sounded so awful. A young mum and her little… read more →
On June 10th I’ll be participating in the Fat Oyster Reading Series at Fanny Bay, along with poet Renee Saklikar, author of Children of Air India (Nightwood 2013). I’m very much… read more →
Authors Support Independent Bookstores You know that independent bookstores have taken a beating in the past decade or so. Here in Vancouver, remember Duthie’s, Peregrine, Granville Books, Women In Print,… read more →
Recently Malahat invited me to participate in an online interview with Cody Klippenstein, a former creative writing student at UVic now going for an MFA in New York. The interview just… read more →
Steven Beattie does it again Beattie, the books editor of Quill & Quire and creator/writer/manager of the literary site That Shakespearean Rag, not only gave Red Girl a stellar review in the National Post… read more →
Frank O’Connor Short Story Prize! This prize, named for the Irish author and nationalist (1903-1966) who wrote “Guests of the Nation” among other deeply-felt and political short fictions, nominates collections… read more →