Meet the 2025 Writers

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2:30 pm | Friday, August 15

Caroline Adderson

This event sponsored by: The Writer's Studio at SFU

Caroline Adderson’s newest book, A Way to Be Happy, is a collection of short stories that considers what it means to find happiness—and how we so often seem to understand it through our encounters with the lives, and the stories, of others.

Caroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister, Ellen in Pieces, The Sky Is Falling, Sitting Practice, and A History of Forgetting), two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings), as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes, three CBC Literary Awards, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.

Book cover: A Way to be Happy - by Caroline Adderson
Caroline Adderson credit Jessica Whitman
Photo credit Jessica Whitman