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

A best book of the year!
Radiance has been chosen as a 'best book of the year' for 2007, by The Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire and The New Zealand Star-Herald.

BC Book Prize Finalist
Radiance is a finalist for the BC Book Prize's Ethel Wilson Award. The award is given annually to the author of the best work of fiction by a BC or Yukon author.

The other nominees are: Mary Novik, for Conceit; Claire Mulligan for The Reckoning of Boston Jim; David Chariandy for Soucouyant, and Heather Burt for Adam's Peak. The awards gala will be held April 26th, 2008, in Vancouver.

Radiance...
has been chosen as a finalist for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize! The prize is given annually for best Canadian book of fiction. Other nominees are MG Vassanji for The Assassin’s Tale; Lawrence Hill for The Book of Negroes; Robert Hough for The Culprit; and Nancy Huston for Fault Lines.

The award ceremony is April 1, 2008, in Toronto.

Thank you to the Ontario Library Association, which has selected Radiance as a finalist for its annual Evergreen Award. Ontario library users will vote for the book of their choice during Ontario Library Week, October 19-25, 2008.

Grant MacEwan College
has chosen Radiance for its 2008-2009 shortlist for College Book of the Year! Last year’s college book of the year was Sweetness in the Belly, by Camilla Gibb.

Radiance
is now available in paperback from Vintage Canada ($19.95). In the UK, the trade paperback launches May, 2008.

Radiance is now available in audiobook from Oakhill Publishing in the UK. Email: info@oakhillpublishing.com

Shaena will be speaking...
about writing April 12th, at Whistler, BC, as part of the launch of Whistler’s new public library building; and in Toronto, May 23rd, as a panelist at the Writers’ Union of Canada AGM.

Denman Island Writers Festival, 2008….
It’s not too early to start planning to attend the Denman Island Writers’ Festival, July 18-20, 2008. Shaena will appear with other featured writers in an 3 day extravaganza of readings, discussions and workshops.