News
BOOK REVIEWS & OTHER MENTIONS
Book Review: The heart will lead you back (Sabrina Fatma Ahmad, The Daily Star, February 1, 2024)
Story behind the book: Elizabeth Shick imagines coming back to a country after decades of exile (Shubha Sunder, The Boston Globe, March 9, 2023)
The Golden Land by Elizabeth Shick: Book Review (Jody Hobbs Hesler, Necessary Fiction, February 6, 2023)
Travels to Myanmar: The Golden Land by Elizabeth Shick takes the reader on a cultural journey by Kate Feiffer (MV Times, January 25, 2023)
The Golden Land by Elizabeth Shick: Book Review (Terry Hong, Shelf Awareness, January 20, 2023)
The Golden Land: An exploration of how heritage fits into the broader scope of a person (The Business Standard, January 3, 2023)
The Golden Land by Elizabeth Shick: Book Review (Mama’s Gotta Read; December 6, 2022)
by Megan McCarthy-Biank (The Nerd Cantina; December 1, 2022)
ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
Interview: Elizabeth Shick on The Golden Land and writing about expat life by Andrea Barton (Brightside Story Studio, February 2, 2023)
Author’s Guild Member Spotlight (Author’s Guild, January 13, 2023)
7 Tips for Writing Across Culture in Fiction (Writer’s Digest; December 15, 2022)
When Cultures Collide: In Praise of Transnational Literature (Literary Hub; December 9, 2022)
Interview: Elizabeth Shick on Research Through Immersion (Writer’s Digest; December 5, 2022)
PODCASTS
A Bookish Home Podcast Ep. 163: Elizabeth Shick on the Expat Experiences in Myanmar That Shaped Her Debut Novel (A Bookish Home Podcast with host Laura Szaro Kopinski, August 29, 2023)
GSMC Book Review Podcast Episode 426: Interview with Elizabeth Shick (Golden State Media Concepts Book Review Podcast with host Sarah Meckler, August 26, 2023)
The Writing Table: Elizabeth Shick and the Golden Land (The Writing Table with host Kris Clink, April 5, 2023)
The Writer’s Forum: Elizabeth Shick with Michael Tusa (WRBH Reading Radio with host Michael Tusa, February 6, 2023 [originally aired January 31, 2023 on WRBH 88.3 FM in New Orleans])
Elizabeth Shick Brings Burmese Recent History To Life In ‘The Golden Land’ (Writers’ Voices with hosts Monica and Caroline, February 1, 2023)
Tanzania, The Gambia, Angola, Mozambique, Italy, Malawi, Myanmar, Bangladesh: Liz Shick’s 27 Years Abroad (Women Who Walk with host Louise Ross, January 26, 2023)
Cantina Conversation with Elizabeth Shick – TNCS Ep 264 (The Nerd Cantina with host Megan McCarthy-Biank; January 6, 2023)
Events
UPCOMING EVENTS
More events coming soon.
PAST EVENTS
Social Hour with WFP Authors to mark the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations World Food Programme, sponsored by the WFP Alumni Network
@Delegates Lounge
World Food Programme
Via Cesare Giulio Viola 68/70,
Rome 00148, Italy
Monday, November 20, 2023
10:00-11:30 am CET
Guest speaker: Elizabeth Shick, author of the award-winning novel The Golden Land
Dhaka American Woman’s Club (DAWC)
@ US Ambassador’s Residence
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Monday, November 6, 2023 7:00 pm BST
Book signing: Elizabeth Shick, author of The Golden Land
@Edgartown Books
44 Main Street
Edgartown, MA 02539
Saturday, July 8, 2023 2:00 – 4:00 pm ET
The Golden Land: Author Elizabeth Shick brings Myanmar to Chilmark
@Chilmark Public Library
522 South Road
Chilmark, MA 02535
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 5 pm ET
THE GOLDEN LAND Book Event: Elizabeth Shick in conversation with Michael Lowenthal
@ Porter Square Books
25 White Street
Cambridge, MA 02140
Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 7pm ET
AWP Award Series Reading and Celebration @ AWP Conference, Event F239A
Metropolitan Ballroom A,
Sheraton Grand Seattle, Third Floor,
Union Street Tower
1400 6th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
Friday, March 10, 2023
4:45 pm to 6:15 pm PT
Dhaka Lit Fest
Panel on Settling Scores
South and Southeast Asian history is marred by vicious violence, of state against civilians and even neighbour against neighbour. Violence begets more violence and we just can’t seem to break out of this cycle. Authors who have addressed the legacy of such trauma in various contexts, public to domestic, ethnic to gendered, discuss the wretched, vexing and, still too often, existential crises posed by such violence in South and Southeast Asian cultures. Authors Shehan Karunatilaka, Iffat Nawaz, Elizabeth Shick, and Vivek Menezes are moderated by Mahua Moitra.
@Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Saturday, January 7, 2023,
5:30pm-6:30pm BST
THE GOLDEN LAND Virtual Book Launch, hosted by Cambridge Common Writers
Elizabeth Shick in conversation with Kyoko Mori
Thurs, December 8, 2022, 8pm ET
Fri, December 9, 2022, 7am BST
Fri, December 9, 2022, 7:30am MMT
Fri, December 9, 2022, 12pm noon ADST