Interview - Susan Wadds and What the Living Do

Canada Reads American Style

Tara chats with Canadian Susan Wadds, author of What the Living Do. Winner of the Writer's Union of Canada's Prose Contest in 2016, Susan's award-winning work has appeared in The Blood Pudding, Room, Quagmire, Waterwheel Review, Funicular, WOW--Women on Writing, and many more.

The first two chapters of her debut novel, What the Living Do, (Regal House Publishing, 2024), won the Lazuli Group's Prose Contest, and were published in Azure Magazine.

Susan is a certified Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) workshop facilitator. She lives on a quiet river in South-Central Ontario with an odd assortment of humans and cats.

https://www.instagram.com/deepamwadds/

https://writeyourwayin.ca/about-me/

https://regalhousepublishing.com/susan-wadds/

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