M. A. C. Farrant


Marion Alice Coburn Farrant is a Canadian short fiction writer and journalist. She lives in North Saanich, British Columbia.

Career

Farrant has written fiction, non-fiction, and a memoir, as well as book reviews and essays for the Vancouver Sun and the Globe & Mail. Her memoir, My Turquoise Years, which she adapted for the stage, premiered April 4 - May 4, 2013 at the Arts Club Theatre's Granville Island Stage in Vancouver. Her novel, The Strange Truth About Us – A Novel of Absence, was chosen by The Globe & Mail as one of the Best Books of 2012. The World Afloat – Miniatures, a collection of very short fiction, was published by Talonbooks in the spring of 2014 and won the City of Victoria Book Butler Book Prize for that year.
She has taught writing at the University of Victoria, the Victoria School of Writing, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and was Writer-In-Residence at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Anthologies

  • A Rewording Life – Finding Meaning, Alzheimers Fundraising anthology, Sheryl Gordon, Editor, Fall, 2015
  • K1N, Issue 5, 2014.06, L'Ecole de Dressage, Translated by Annick Geoffroy-Skuce
  • 50 Poems for Gordon Lightfoot, Leacock Museum, Orillia, Ontario, Anthology, November 2014, "Postcards"
  • Imaginarium 2013, Best Canadian Specultive Fiction, ChiZine pub, Three stories from Geist, Toronto, 2013
  • 111 West Coast Portraits, Photographs by Barry Peterson & Blaise Enright, Mother Tongue Press, October, 2012, "Author Interview"
  • Framing the Garden, Art & Words, Linda Rogers, Editor, Ekstasis Editions, December, 2011
  • Slice Me Some Truth, Non-fiction, Luanne Armstrong & Zoe Landale, Editors, Wolsak & Wynn, Fall, 2011
  • ditch, anthology 2, Trainwreck Press,
  • St Johns, NFLD, 160 pages, published online, "Point Ten"
  • Wordscapes Youth Arts Journal, Ripple Effect Arts and Literature Society ; 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,
  • This I Know, Dropped Threads, #3, Random House Canada, Editor, Marjorie Anderson, April 2006, "The Gospel According to Elsie",
  • 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".
  • Reading the Peninsula, ed by Sara Dowse, 2003, Sidney B.C., Skidney
  • Listening with the Ear of the Heart, Edited by Dave Margoshes, August 2003, The Mirror,
  • Ripple Effect Press, All Wound Up: Alternative Writing from British Columbia, 2002, Vancouver B.C., 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,, Starring Lotta Hitchmanova
  • And Other Stories, edited by George Bowering, Talon, Vancouver B.C. Spring/Summer 2001, Vancouver B.C., Studies Show/Experts Say
  • Exact Fare Only—Good, Bad & Ugly Rides on Public Transportation, edited by Grant Buday, Anvil Press, February 1, 2001,, 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,
  • What Is Already Known, Thistledown Press Ltd. 20th Anniversary Anthology, edited by Sean Virgo, "Stealing George" from Sick Pigeon, Fall 1995
  • On Spec: The First Five Years,, "Fish",, Spring 1995
  • Witness to Wilderness: The Clayoquot Sound Anthology,, "Fish",, 1994
  • Going Down Swinging, Australia, Annual Anthology, Selected Fiction,, 1993
  • Snapshots: The New Canadian Fiction,, Selected fiction,. 1992
  • Going Down Swinging, Australia,, Environmental Issues, "Fish",, 1992

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 1994; released May 1995.
  • fingerprinting inkoperated, "M A C", Montreal, Quebec, 1992
  • The Berkeley Horse,, "Poor Norman", No 32, 1991
  • The Berkeley Horse,, "childless", No 28, 1990
  • The Berkeley Horse,, "Raw Material", No 18, 1989