writing, researching, podcasting, teaching, walking
Matthew R. Anderson
photo by my friend, mentor, & fellow walker, +Richard Kotowich
BOOKS
Someone Else’s Saint was published April 2025 with Pottersfield Press in Nova Scotia. Its search for the elusive Saint Ninian won second place in the Seventh Annual Pottersfield Prize for Creative Nonfiction. You can order the book HERE. There’s an interview about the book HERE. You can read reviews of SES here and here.
On May 9, 2025 my memoir of walking on the prairies, The Good Walk, won a Saskatchewan Book Award (photo below). For one fabulous week in the summer of 2024 it was a national non-fiction best-seller!
The Good Walk was also reviewed in the Winnipeg Free Press, and The Miramichi Reader, who chose it as a “Best of 2024 – non-fiction” selection.
Also in 2024, my book Prophets of Love was one of three finalists for the Vine National Canadian Book Award in Jewish non-fiction (winner was Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger). CBC Radio One Montreal interviewed me about Prophets of Love here. There is a University of Toronto Quarterly review of it here, a Literature and Theology review here, and a Catholic Register article here. I was tickled that the Association of Music Librarians also posted a review, here.
Our Home and Treaty Land, which I co-wrote with Dr. Ray Aldred, is recommended by the General Council Executive of the United Church of Canada as a recommended resource for churches and individuals.
ICYMI, a spectacular review of The Good Walk (University of Regina Press, 2024) in The Miramachi Review, by Michael Bryson, HERE
I’m offering a signed copy of Pairings: The Bible and Booze (or of Apocalypse et gin tonic, the same book en francais), mailed with whatever inside cover note you request, to any address in Canada, for $20 by e-transfer (to matthewndg@gmail.com) or by paypal (@MatthewAndersonBooks). A portion of every sale will be given to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Here is the order form: https://forms.gle/U5atSZk279GXpeGx6
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