M. A. C. Farrant

M.A.C. Farrant (born April 5, 1947) is a Canadian short fiction writer, memoirist, journalist, and humourist.

Born in Sydney, Australia, and residing on the Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, Canada, since the age of five, she is the author of ten collections of satirical and humorous short fiction and a novel-length memoir, My Turquoise Years which she has adapted into a stage play in conjunction with the Arts Club Theatre of Vancouver. B.C.; it is currently in development. Down the Road to Eternity: New & Selected Fiction was published by Talonbooks in the Fall of 2009. “The Secret Lives of Litterbugs”, humour/non-fiction, appeared from Key Porter Books in April, 2009. In 2011 Talonbooks will publish The Strange Truth about Us, a collection of Farrant’s newest fiction. A full-time writer, she has been a regular book reviewer for the Vancouver Sun and the Toronto Globe & Mail since 2004. An active promoter of the literary arts, she is the co-producer and host of the Sidney Reading Series.

Farrant’s work is infused with acerbic wit and iconoclastic innovation. As the Globe & Mail has noted, “Farrant is better at startling us with unnerving, often misanthropic, visions of everyday life than perhaps any other Canadian writer.”

The Ottawa Citizen has called Farrant “One of the best humourists in the land.” BC Bookworld has called her “Canada’s most ascerbic and intelligent humourist.”

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Strange Truth About Us, Short fiction, Talonbooks, 2011

Down the Road to Eternity—New & Selected Fiction, Talonbooks, 285 pages, Fall, 2009

The Secret Lives of Litterbugs, Non-fiction/humour, Key Porter Books, 230 pages, Spring, 2009

The Breakdown So Far, Short Fiction, Talonbooks, Vancouver, B.C., 2007, ISBN 978-0-88922-556-5, 160 pages

My Turquoise Years, Non-fiction/Memoir, Greystone/Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, B.C. 2004, ISBN 1-55365-037-9, 186 pages, Canada & U.S.

Darwin Alone In The Universe; Short fiction, Talonbooks, Vancouver B.C., 2003, ISBN 0-88922-471-4, 160 pages,

Girls Around The House, Linked stories, (Polestar Book Publishers/Raincoast) 1999, Victoria & Vancouver, 156 pages ISBN 1-896095-93-3,

Gifts, Short fiction, Hawthorne Society by Reference West, Victoria, November 1999, 24 pages limited edition, 150 copies, ISBN 1-894010-42-6,

What's True, Darling, Short fiction, Polestar Book Publishers/Raincoast, 1997, Vancouver & Victoria B.C., 181 pages ISBN 1-896095-28-3,

Word of Mouth, Novella & Short Fiction Short fiction, Thistledown Press, l996, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 136 pages, ISBN 1-895449-60-X,

Altered Statements, Short fiction, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, B.C., 1995, 144 pgs, ISBN 1-55152-019-2,

Raw Material, Short fiction, Arsenal Pulp Press, l993, Vancouver, B.C.,136 pgs, ISBN 0-88978-262-8

Sick Pigeon, Short fiction, Thistledown Press, l99l, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 96 pgs, ISBN 0-920633-83-

ANTHOLOGIES

Lit Happens, Photographs of BC writers by Barry Peterson, Mother Tongue Press, 201

Framing the Garden, Art & Words, Linda Rogers, Editor, Ekstasis Editions, 2010

Slice Me Some Truth, Non-fiction, Luanne Armstrong & Zoe Landale, Editors, Wolsak & Wynn, 2010

ditch, anthology 2 (Canadian women innovative poets), Trainwreck Press,

St Johns, NFLD, 160 pages, published online, “Point Ten”

Wordscapes Youth Arts Journal, Ripple Effect Arts and Literature Society (REAL); distributed to high schools in British Columbia; “Jane and Mr. Leaky”, 2008

Imagining Place, BC Federation of Writers Anthology, Anvil Press, Daniel Francis, Editor, May, 2008, “The Secret Lives of Litterbugs”

Apples Under the Bed, Hedgerow Press, Fall 2007; “Baked Salmon”

Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour, Will Ferguson, Editor, “The Heartspeak Wellness Retreat”, March, 2006, ISBN 0670064432

This I Know, Dropped Threads, #3, Random House Canada, Editor, Marjorie Anderson, April 2006, “The Gospel According to Elsie” , ISBN-13: 979-0-679-31385-4, ISBN-1-: 679-31385-0

bill bissett Tribute Anthology, “A Universe Runs Through Him”, Nightwood Editions, Spring 2006

George Bowering Birthday Anthology, Coach House Press, 2006, “Happy Birthday”, December 2005-

White Gloves of the Doorman, Anthology on the work of Leon Rooke, edited by Branko Gorgup, 2004, Exile Editions, Toronto; commissioned piece, "Fat Leon". ISBN 1-55096-611-1

Reading the Peninsula, ed by Sara Dowse, 2003 (Arts Council of the Saanich Peninsula), Sidney B.C., Skidney ISBN 0 97334710 4

Listening with the Ear of the Heart, Edited by Dave Margoshes, August 2003, (St Peter’s Press, Sask,) The Mirror, ISBN 1-896971-24-5

Ripple Effect Press, All Wound Up: Alternative Writing from British Columbia, 2002, Vancouver B.C. ISBN 1-894735-04-8, Darwin Alone in the Universe, Jane and Mr. Leakey

Neuvo Argomenti, edited by Branko Gorgup, Rome, Italy, Special edition of English Canadian Writing, in translation, Summer 2001, ISBN 88-04-48950-2, Starring Lotta Hitchmanova

And Other Stories, edited by George Bowering, Talon, Vancouver B.C. Spring/Summer 2001, Vancouver B.C. ISBN 0-88922-451, Studies Show/Experts Say

Exact Fare Only--Good, Bad & Ugly Rides on Public Transportation, edited by Grant Buday, Anvil Press, February 1, 2001, ISBN 1-895636-29-9, Vancouver B.C. Gifts

Tesseracts 7, Speculative Fiction, edited by Paula Johanson & Jean-Louis Trudel, Tesseracts Books, Edmonton, title story Altered Statements from the book Altered Statements, 1998, ISBN

The Concrete Forest, Urban fiction, edited by Hal Niedviecki, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, title story Altered Statements from the book Altered Statements, April 1998, ISBN

Moosehead Anthology of Postcard Fiction, edited by Robert Allen, DC Books, Montreal, "Happy Birthday" & "bed", Spring 1997, ISBN 0-91-919688-37-3

What Is Already Known, Thistledown Press Ltd. 20th Anniversary Anthology, edited by Sean Virgo, "Stealing George" from Sick Pigeon ISBN 1-895449-53-7, Fall l995

On-Spec, The First Five Years, (Books Collective: Copper Pig Writer's Society & Tesseracts Books), "Fish", ISBN 1-89582-612-3, Spring 1995

Witness to Wilderness: The Clayoquot Sound Anthology, (Arsenal Pulp Press), "Fish", ISBN 1-55152-009-5, 1994

Going Down Swinging, Australia, Annual Anthology, Selected Fiction, ISSN 0157 3950, l993

Snapshots: The New Canadian Fiction, (Black Moss Press), Selected fiction, ISBN 0-88753-256-X l992

Going Down Swinging, Australia, (Hit And Miss Publications), Environmental Issues, "Fish", ISSN 0157-3950, l992

CHAPBOOKS

Farfield Press, 2003

Farfield Press, 2002

Far Field Press, Anthology, ed Allan Brown, 2001, Skidney

fingerprinting inkoperated, "Diana Ross In Wax", April 1997

fingerprinting inkoperated, "Three" - Memorial to David UU", originally to be published as "Three" by The Berkeley Horse, #55, October l994; released May l995.

fingerprinting inkoperated, "M A C", Montreal, Quebec, l992

The Berkeley Horse, (Silver Birch Press), "Poor Norman", No 32, l991

The Berkeley Horse, (Silver Birch Press), "childless", No 28, l990

The Berkeley Horse, (Silver Birch Press), "Raw Material", No l8, 1989

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