The Margaret Atwood Society invites paper proposals for an online panel focusing on how Atwood’s writing engages religious and spiritual practices and the supernatural. We welcome proposals that consider how Atwood’s works mobilize the sacred, the ritual, the metaphysical, and/or the ghostly as vehicles for meaning-making, ethical reflection, and narrative strategy. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

·       Religion as ideology

·       Spirituality and folk belief outside institutional frameworks

·       Myth, ritual, and cosmology

·       Scriptural and prophetic discursive modes

·       Haunting, spectrality, and divided subjectivity

·       Eco-spirituality and religious environmental ethics

·       The relationship between storytelling, testimony, and the sacred

Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief biographical note to leefrew@yorku.ca by 23 March 2026.