Beverly Akerman MSc
- Location
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Birthday
- April 26
- Bio
- Beverly Akerman's short story collection, The Meaning of Children has just been published in Canada by Exile Editions (look for it at Amazon.ca, Chapters.ca, and http://tinyurl.com/6zd2ecp). After over two decades in molecular genetics research, Beverly realized she'd been learning more and more about less and less. Skittish at the prospect of knowing everything about nothing, she turned, for solace, to writing, winning myriad awards for her efforts. She recently received her third Pushcart nomination. Her nonfiction and academic work have appeared in Maclean’s Magazine, The Toronto Star, The National Post, The Montreal Gazette and on CBC Radio One (Canada’s NPR-equivalent), as well as in numerous lay publications and learned journals. It pleases her strangely to believe she’s the only Canadian fiction writer ever to have sequenced her own DNA. http://beverlyakermanmscwriter.blogspot.com/
MY RECENT POSTS
- Sowing a farm in the city
December 02, 2011 08:43AM - Shortlisted for UK's
Aesthetic Creative Works
Competition
November 14, 2011 03:53PM - Enforcing long-gun registry
does prevent crime
November 02, 2011 03:01PM - Dawson College 5 yrs on: the
Government should apologize
September 13, 2011 06:39PM - "Are books dead?"
August 30, 2011 12:48PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “nice to read someone
with fire in his belly. good
luck:
you'll need it! (we all
d…”
January 18, 2012 09:52AM - “LOVED this! now i have
to go and read the
original
story...best for the
holidays…”
December 04, 2011 06:49PM - “Thanks for reading,
Mary! (Haven't won yet,
though...)”
November 15, 2011 11:15AM - “Thanks, Fusun &
Mary, for your support. I
can't help
thinking--5 years
is a l…”
September 13, 2011 11:29PM - “Thanks so much, Mary! I
pride myself on being
unusual...or
try to convince
myself…”
July 19, 2011 11:40AM
Beverly Akerman MSc's Links
Sowing a farm in the city
Greenhouse becomes a hotbed of urban agriculture
The greenhouse on top of Concordia’s Henry F. Hall
Building boasts an eagle’s eye view of the city, but
it’s no ivory tower.
Increasingly, the greenhouse is a hub of community building and a
hotbed of ur/… Read full post »
Shortlisted for UK's Aesthetic Creative Works Competition
[For more of my best writing, including news of
my book, The Meaning Of Children, please visit
my other blog!]
Beverly Akerman's story "Spilt Milk," a more compact version of her "Sea Of Tranquillity," has made the short list for Aesthetica's Creative Works Competition. "Sea of… Read full post »
Enforcing long-gun registry does prevent crime
Enforcing long-gun registry does prevent crime
Why do critics of the long gun registry persistently
ignore this simple truth? By BEVERLY AKERMAN
Originally published in The Hill Times, March 29, 2010
Dawson College 5 yrs on: the Government should apologize
[For more of my best writing, including news of
my book, The Meaning Of Children, please visit
my other blog!]
Five years later…
First off, I think today is a day for offering our condolences to the
Photo
… Read full post »"Are books dead?"
If you're a writer--or "just" a reader--you need to read this amazing article!! “Are books dead, and can authors survive?” It's by Ewan Morrison, based on a talk he gave at the Edinburgh Book Fair.
Here are a couple of intriguing excerpts… Read full post »
Reader feedback so good, it almost hurts...
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Just had to share some of the incredibly moving feedback I've been getting from readers of my new book, The Meaning Of Children (available at fine bookstores,… Read full post »
The Meaning of Children under consideration for Giller Prize
I'm honoured to announce that my book, The Meaning Of Children, has been submitted by my publisher, Exile Editions to be considered for The Giller Prize, Canada's "richest literary award for fiction."
You can find the listing for The Meaning of Children and the… Read full post »
What would an American do? Keeping a writing career in gear
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I was just re-reading this interview and I thought I would post the whole thing. Thanks again, Meg Pokrass & Fictionaut!
… Read full post »On being edited...
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my book, The Meaning Of Children, please visit
my other blog!]
An emerging writer lives on a high wire, where self-confidence—the bulwark against frequent rejection--counterbalances humility, because who doesn't have a lot to be hu… Read full post »
As RT by Margaret Atwood: Exile Writers Series & Book Launch
Students help Rwandan genocide survivor
Kids & Math: Some Symbols are More = Than Others
Pie
Some folks say your hands can tell the story of your life. Well, my hands cain't talk, but they've made so many pies, I bet they could do it themselves if you cut 'em off and gave 'em the right ingredients, I
… Read full post »Beverly Akerman Explains Mysteries of Childhood and Children
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MONTREAL, April 15, 2011 – Beverly Akerman’s
award-winning story collection The Meaning of Children
launches April 28th at Westmount’s Nicholas Hoare Books, from
6 to 8 pm. At that time, Akerman promises to reveal her answers to
the conundrums of chi/… Read full post »
Not Your Bubby's Klezmer!
A few weeks back, I went to a concert
at my synagogue,
Dorshei Emet. It was Shabbat Shira—the Sabbath
of song. My shul is reconstructionist,
which means we’re always on the lookout for something new to
throw in the mix—hubby and I only half-jokingly call it Our
Lady of…
[For more of my best writing, including news of my book, The Meaning Of Children, please visit my other blog!]
A few years back, my then-high-school-attending son received a detention. Not for inappropriate language or behaviour, but solely because his shirt-tail was untucked. Alt… Read full post »
"U.S. gun lobbies: the inmates who run the asylum"
If you've spent even 30 seconds over over the past couple of weeks since the shooting of US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords ( who was just successfully moved to intensive care at Texas Medical Center) thinking about gun control, you owe it to yourself to read… Read full post »
Stephanie Hoddinott: Sad Anniversary of a Preventable Murder
As part of an homage to those killed and injured recently in Tuscon, where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords still lies in intensive care, I've been re-running some of my previous gun control-related posts. This piece coincides with the tragic anniversary of the murder of Stepha… Read full post »
Gun Control is also a Women's Issue
~P.J. O’Rourke, Holidays from Hell, 1989
(This post was originally published on another of/… Read full post »
The Solution is Simple: No More Guns
(To mark the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, still in critical condition--and the murder of 6 others, with 13 more injured--here is a re-issue of the first article on gun control I wrote, published in The Montreal Gazette, Sept. 19, 2006, following the murderous rampage/suicide of Kimveer… Read full post »
When People We Know Kill Themselves
(My first commissioned professional article, originally published in The National Review of Medicine issue of January 30, 2004. I reproduce it here because suicide remains an issue close to my heart. If you know of someone struggling with depression or suicide--or close to someone who is-… Read full post »
"Barney’s Version" the movie
Who the hell’s “Version” is this, anyway?
In my last
post, I confided how much I was looking forward to seeing the
film adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s Barney’s
Version. Yesterday, I actually put my money where my mouth
is.
Now all I can say is, be careful what… Read full post »
[For more of my best writing, including news of
my book, The Meaning Of Children, please visit
my other blog!]
The first novel by Mordecai Richler I read was Son of a Smaller Hero in the late ’70s. I was a McGill undergrad in an intro to CanLit… Read full post »
The Hardboiled Stress of Being Santa
(Based on some true stories: What's the connection between dirty letters written by Santa, cash payments to former Prime Minister Mulroney, the Guess Who reunion tour, randy goats, sustainable development and Gilbert Gottfried? Join intrepid tabloid reporter Renta Yenta as she narrates… Read full post »
A Writer's Gratitude: Part One
As
a confirmed evolutionist, I know my unfortunate tendency to
see bad news like THIS while good news
meanders across my brain pan in
a lower case way, was hammered into human DNA through
the ages. After all, recognizing danger must surely confer a
stronger evolutionary advantage than non-sto… Read full post »
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