Ian Williams

Apr 10, 2024 | quillandquire.com | Cassandra Drudi |Ian Williams |Massey Lectures

Poet and novelist Ian Williams will deliver this year’s CBC Massey Lectures series. The lectures, as yet untitled, will be published by House of Anansi Press in October. The lectures will be broadcast on CBC Radio One’s IDEAS. Details of the 2024 Massey Lectures tour have yet to be confirmed. The Giller-winning writer told CBC host Tom Power that he chose to focus on the theme of conversations for his lectures. “We’re living at a point now where we can barely talk to each other, right?

Nov 1, 2023 | ruralnewsgroup.co.nz | Ian Williams

My colleague Wade Bell will have the privilege of taking over the writing of this column. I have three columns to go before the end of the year and in these I want to cover: Where have we come from? Where are we at now? and Where do we need to be to meet the future challenges? Where have we come from? I started working for Pioneer in May 1999. While I knew quite a lot about pasture-based production systems, I knew nothing about maize.

May 11, 2023 | thebookseller.com | Sian Bayley |Ian Williams |Eleanor Catton |Linda Grant

Authors including Barbara Kingsolver, Caleb Azumah Nelson and Emily Kenway have been shortlisted for the Orwell Prizes for Political Writing and Political Fiction.  Seventeen books have been shortlisted for the two book prizes, including eight works of fiction and nine non-fiction titles. Kingsolver has made the cut for political fiction with Demon Copperhead (Faber), also nominated for the Women’s Prize, while Azumah Nelson has been shortlisted for Small Worlds (Viking).