something grand

writing, researching, interviewing, teaching, walking

photo by my friend, mentor, & fellow walker, +Richard Kotowich

BOOKS

Published April 2025 with Pottersfield Press in Nova Scotia, Someone Else’s Saint and 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.

On May 9, 2025 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!

Below are my other books. Also in 2024, 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). 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.

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

Latest blogposts:

Sheila Graham-Smith on Someone Else’s Saint

(and on pilgrimage in its varied forms) This fall, while signing copies of “Someone Else’s Saint” at the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia’s annual Booktoberfest in…

My “Year + Two Month” Strokeaversary

Somehow my one-year strokeaversary slipped by without a blog post, even though Sara and I marked it privately. Now here we are: way past twelve months.…

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About Somethinggrand

There’s something here for many tastes – fiction, non-fiction (primarily about walking and Canadian-Indigenous relations), academic papers (my field is biblical studies), and multimedia projects. Welcome! Read more

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