News, Media & Speaking Engagements
LATEST NEWS
Nominated for the 2025 Alberta Book Publishing Awards — Trade Nonfiction Book of the Year
Awards across 12 categories celebrate Alberta’s best books of the year. Homing is nominated in 2025.
Speaking appearance at International Literary Festival in Montreal. April 2025.
Alice Irene selected for Banff Centre for the Arts Writing Residency in Environmental Journalism
February-March 2025
Alan Neal interviews Alice Irene on the launch of Homing
Review of Homing in The Fiddlehead
Hollie Adams Reviews Homing by Alice Irene Whittaker.
“Whittaker takes the reader on this journey towards liberation in an openhearted fashion. Her ethos is one of nonjudgement, genuine curiosity, and respect. She repeatedly recognizes her privilege, she is never not self-reflective, her empathy always on full display.”
Catherine Owen reviews Homing: A Quest to Care for Myself and the Earth.
“Written in the lyrical manner of Robin Wall Kimmerer, Annie Dillard or even Mary Oliver, Whittaker attends to natural details with adoring precision, aiming to give us a sense of connectivity and thus real dreams of a future beyond scenarios of defeat. As she propounds: ‘I do not want to numb myself for the apocalypse, rather I want to be awake for the revolution.’”
Quill & Quire Most Anticipated Fall 2024 Nonfiction Preview
Homing is on Quill & Quire’s list to watch for Fall 2024.
Homing is on 49th Shelf’s list to watch for Fall 2024.
CBC Books: 54 works of Canadian nonfiction to check out this fall
Homing is featured in this roundup of new Canadian nonfiction. - August 29, 2024
‘Where There Was Road, There’s Water’: Quebec Author Loses Beloved Landscapes to Hurricane Flooding
New Article in The Energy Mix - August 28, 2024
Cover Reveal for Homing
Alice Irene’s debut book is now available for pre-order, and will be published September 3, 2024.
The Human Animal, Season Three of Reseed is released
September 24, 2023
Book deal with Freehand Publishing for Homing
December 6, 2022
The Intersection between Art and Our Relationship to the Land
: A Community Conversation Hosted by Alice Irene Whittaker. January 23, 2023.
Poem collection Spruce Bones selected for CBC Poetry Prize longlist
November 10, 2022.
Season Two of Reseed is released
October 23, 2022
Alice Irene joins the Board of Directors of Régénération Canada
October 2022
Reseed featured on CBC Podcast Playlist
May 23, 2022
Signing on with Transatlantic Agency, represented by Marilyn Biderman
September 16, 2021.
Alice Irene is selected for the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize Longlist
September 15, 2021.
It’s official: Alice Irene is a speaker at World Circular Economy Forum 2021
May 2021
Alice Irene is awarded a literary grant from Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
April 9, 2021
GRANTS & AWARDS
Alberta Book Awards, Nomination for Trade Nonfiction Book of the Year — 2025
Literary Residency, Environmental Journalism, Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity — 2025
CBC Poetry Prize, Longlist — 2022
CBC Nonfiction Prize, Longlist — 2021
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Innovation Grant, Grand Challenges Explorations – 2013-2014
CBC Literary Awards, Long list and Shortlist – 2008 and 2011
Nelson Mandela and Graça Machel Innovation Award, Award & Funding Recipient - 2011
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Leading Climate Action through Storytelling, hosted by Academy of Sustainable Innovation - Sept. 2025
Metropolis Bleu / Blue Met International Literary Festival — April 2025
Grassroots Groundswell, 2023, 2024
World Circular Economy Forum 2021
Recording: World Circular Economy Forum 2021 - Circularity at Home
Recording: World Circular Economy Forum 2021: Communicating Circularity
La Pêche Coalition for a Green New Deal – Circular Living: The Gatineau Hills and Beyond
Bank of Canada - Circular Economy and Circular Living - December 2020
MEDIA INTERVIEWS
‘Where there was road, there’s water’: Quebec author loses beloved landscapes to hurricane flooding — The Energy Mix (Sept. 3, 2024)
CBC All in a Day with Alan Neal, discussing the launch of Homing (Sept. 6, 2024)
Climate in a summer of smoke — CBC Radio (Aug. 15, 2023)
City Builder: Alice Irene Whittaker leads the charge on environmental issues in Ottawa — The Capital Current (2023)
Chelsea poet longlisted for CBC Poetry Prize — The Lowdown (Nov. 23, 2022)
Stratford-born writer longlisted for poetry prize — The Beacon Herald (Nov. 11, 2022)
CBC Live National Television: Interview with Natasha Fatah on the Circular Economy (July 2020)
Global Centre for Pluralism: Building Back the Post-Pandemic Economy: How a Circular Economy Can Help the Planet and Our Communities (September 2020)
CBC News: Turning beer into bread, a Montreal co-op takes on food waste (December 2020)
Globe and Mail: Recycling leftover meat and fish? It’s all part of Canada’s circular economy (February 2021)
PODCAST INTERVIEWS
Futuresteading with Jade Miles — April 2025
PluggedIn Podcast with Megan Bennett — Feb. 2, 2025
The GoodBeing Podcast with Bo Aganaba — Feb. 20, 2024
the conscient podcast with Claude Schryer — Sept. 2024
The Heart Gallery Podcast with Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer — March 2023
OP EDS
Don’t just hope for climate action - head to your municipal election voting booth — The Toronto Star
Ottawa needs bolder action on the climate file — The Ottawa Citizen (co-authored)
The circular economy isn’t just a zero-waste goal - it should be critical to Canada’s action on climate — Corporate Knights (co-authored)
Fiscal updates show times of crisis need to be met with resilience — The National Observer (co-authored)
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