![]() ![]() You're squeezing in writing between your life and the hustle. It usually takes me five years to write a novel. I had not produced a book in a year, ever. With the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award last year, I was able to finish Trickster Drift, the second book in the Trickster series. ![]() ![]() So, the awards mean I don't have to wake up at four in the morning to write. Then I'd switch over to marking and teaching classes, and I'd come back at night and do some editing. I would write from 4 o'clock to 5 o'clock in the morning. I've appreciated all the jobs I've had, but it's a little time consuming. Normally my job is freelancing, whether it's teaching or writing on contract. Here, Robinson talks about the financial freedom and what it means to her craft. The annual fellowship in particular aims to free writers from financial concerns to allow for creative independence. ![]() By the time the Indigenous novelist attended the Scotiabank Giller Prize awards ceremony as one of the five shortlisted authors for the honour (which, alas, she did not win), the Son of a Trickster author had already won the $50,000 Writers' Trust Fellowship earlier in the month and, in 2016, the $25,000 Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award. The last year has been an eventful one for Eden Robinson. In Between the Acts, The Globe and Mail takes a look at how artists manage their time before and after a creative endeavour. ![]()
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