''The Atwood Stories'' was a Canadian television

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...

series, which aired on W in 2003. A short-run dramatic

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produced by

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, the series dramatized six short stories by Margaret Atwood. It was one of the first original Canadian drama series ever commissioned by the network. The series was a Gemini Award nominee for Best Drama Series at the 18th Gemini Awards. The following year, Shaftesbury produced '' The Shields Stories'', a similar series which dramatized six short stories by another Canadian writer,

Carol Shields Carol Ann Shields, (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel ''The Stone Diaries'', which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as ...

."Shields and Atwood on TV? What took so long?". ''

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'', March 9, 2004.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Atwood Stories, The 2000s Canadian drama television series 2003 Canadian television series debuts 2003 Canadian television series endings Television series by Shaftesbury Films Films based on works by Margaret Atwood 2000s Canadian anthology television series W Network original programming