Welcome to the website of novelist and short story writer Shaena Lambert.

In this website you’ll find news, interviews, reviews, thoughts on writing fiction, and info on how to buy Shaena’s books. If you’d like information for your bookclub, please visit Random House’s bookclubs.ca

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Featured News

October, 2009

Best Canadian Stories

Shaena's short story, "A Small Haunting," has been selected by John Metcalf for this year's Best Canadian Stories. Originally published by Zoetrope: All Story, the magazine created by Francis Ford Coppola, "A Small Haunting" will be part of Shaena's new book of short stories.

 

July, 2009

Look for Shaena’s short story, A Wandering Bird, which will appear in this summer’s edition of The New Quarterly.

June 27th, 2009

The Manuscript Gap

Shaena will be facilitating a workshop with acclaimed poet and teacher Betsy Warland, as part of a day of professional development for writers put on by Simon Fraser University’s Writers’ Studio.
The workshop is called “The Manuscript Gap.” “Once you’ve finished a first draft work, how do you find help shaping and revising it?”

June, 2009

Georgia Strait Alliance

Shaena recently joined the board of the Georgia Strait Alliance, the only organization dedicated solely to protecting the Georgia Strait -- a beautiful body of water between Vancouver Island and the coastal mainland. It is the most diverse ecosystem anywhere on the west coast of North America, containing the Fraser River with its huge salmon runs, estuaries on the flight paths of the snowgeese and western sandpipers, and an aquatic home for the pacific octopus, wolf eel and orca. For more info, visit the GSA website.