A quick biography

Canadian fiction writer Adam Lewis Schroeder completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in 1999. He has since traveled widely and published stories in more than a dozen journals and anthologies. In 2001 his short fiction collection Kingdom of Monkeys was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award as the year's best first collection by an English Canadian. His novel Empress of Asia was published by Raincoast in 2006; a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, it was also selected by the Globe & Mail as one of the best books of the year. Adam lives in Penticton BC with his wife and sons, who are all three cute as pie.

New & upcoming publications

"The Man Upstairs" in Event, Winter 2009.

If you hanker for audio content

Trevor Cole's terrific Authors Aloud site hosts a 3-minute recording of the much-beloved ballroom scene from Empress of Asia. Go dance around in your bones.

Actual news!

I've just signed a two-book deal with Douglas & McIntyre's acquiring editor for fiction, Chris Labonté. The first novel, most-likely titled The Spring and describing a tubercular Frenchwoman's search for eternal life in Indochina, will be released Spring 2010 (though more important to me at the moment is the manuscript-delivery date of March 31, 2009.) The second novel will be a murder-mystery based on real events, set in the BC interior in 1958; it's slated for release in 2013, but possibly sooner if I get my butt in gear.

Photo by Nicole Handford. I like her a lot.

What? More audio?

Listen to an interview with Holley Rubinsky for Kootenay Co-op Radio's The Writers Show, or an interview with Sheryl MacKay for CBC Radio's North By Northwest, each originally broadcast in March 2007.


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