If you had told me that in the course of one month, I would appear in the Globe and Mail TWICE, I would have been certain that was a lie. But I was honoured to see my military memoir, Girls Need Not Apply: Field Notes from the Forces, make the list of top 100 books […]
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I’m excited to announce that royalties of Girls Need Not Apply: Field Notes from the Forces, will be donated to Women Warriors Healing Garden from 1-11 November! I excitedly announced this news on The Social, where I appeared on Friday with veteran champion, Rick Mercer! This donation will be finished off with my appearance at
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Some people know that my first publishing home was with Chatelaine magazine, where I wrote a blog called Under Fire. It was an honour when the day before my memoir, Girls Need Not Apply, was released with McClelland & Stewart, Chatelaine excerpted one of the chapters for their website. You can read it, here: https://www.chatelaine.com/living/books/girls-need-not-apply-kelly-s-thompson-book-excerpt/
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I’m really pleased to announce that my essay, “Battle Fatigue,” which appeared in Maisonneuve Magazine’s winter issue this year, is runner-up to the Best Feature Article of the Year, bestowed by the Professional Writers Association of Canada. I’m super proud to win this award for an article that was very difficult, but very important, to
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I’m excited to teach two upcoming courses that I’ve designed from scratch at Royal Roads University Continuing Studies. Whether you want to write creative non fiction or perhaps you’re interested in life as a freelance writer, both courses start in October, so sign up today! So You Want to Be a Freelance Writer This course
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My essay, “Dumb Blonde” has been listed as a notable essay in Memoir Magazine’s #MeToo writing contest. The contest arose from the #MeToo movement, with the hope that those who have survived abuse, harassment, and assault will have the power to speak out through words. There’s so much power in writing. Stories like these are
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What a day! I was lucky to share the news of my memoir selling to McClelland & Stewart, my dream publisher, all revealed on International Women’s Day 2018 through my agent, Stephanie Sinclair at Transatlantic Agency. “Girls Need Not Apply,” will publish with McClelland & Stewart in June 2019. We’re celebrating International Women’s Day with
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I’m so excited to see that my article, “Battle Fatigue,” appears in the Winter issue of Maisonneuve Magazine, a literary magazine based out of Montreal. “Battle Fatigue” addresses sexual harassment in the Canadian Armed Forces, and while I am a proud CAF veteran, I am also a louder and prouder feminist. This article was a
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It’s been a long time in the works, but I’m excited to see the cover revealed for Waiting; An Anthology of essays, to be published by University of Alberta Press in August, 2018 and edited by Julie Sedivy and Rona Altrows. The essays are…as you can imagine, about waiting, all interpreted by various authors. This
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It’s exciting times as Everyday Heroes: Inspirational stories from men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces, which releases this fall from Simon & Schuster Canada, ranked on one of CBC Book’s fall preview lists! My essay, “Basically Broken” appears in this anthology. CBC Books does lots of roundups of great books, so I was
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