05/06/2026
Here’s a little bit about M.A.C. Farrant one of the featured authors at the Mad Hatter’s Literary Tea Party at the Mary Winspear Centre on Saturday, May 30 at 2pm.
M.A.C. (Marion) Farrant has been writing and publishing in Canada since the 1980s: 20 works of fiction, non-fiction and memoir; two produced plays, countless book reviews for the Vancouver Sun and Toronto Globe & Mail; many anthology contributions, and over a dozen chapbooks.
Her books have been a finalist for many awards, among them the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, the Ethel Wilson fiction prize, two Jessie Richardson theatre awards, The Van City Book Prize, the National Magazine Awards, the ReLit Award, the Gemini Awards for the Bravo short film adaptation of her story, Rob’s Guns & Ammo, and the Victoria Book Prize (three times), the last of which she won in 2014 for her collection of miniature fiction, The World Afloat.
Her 2021 non-fiction book, One Good Thing, was a BC Bestseller, and in February, 2026, her latest book, Seventy-Two Seasons. entered the BC Bestseller list at #5 and has remained there for several weeks now.
Farrant is well-known for her acerbic wit and laugh-out-loud humour. BC Bookworld has called her “Canada’s most ascerbic and intelligent humourist”. Bill Richardson has called her “a master of the Zen-like art of delivering weight in a way that is featherlight”, further noting that she’s “the most accomplished and unapologetic miniaturist in Canadian letters.”
