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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I’m so excited to see the latest book, “Everyday Heroes,” which will be published by Simon & Schuster Canada this fall. It is a collection of first person account essays of veterans and soldiers, men and women, and my piece, “Basically Broken,” will appear in this great collection of work. Just two weeks ago, we
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It was a great week for writing! My essay, “Strip, Reveal and Sex Appeal,” which appeared in Ruth Daniell‘s book with Caitlin Press, “BOOBS: Women explore what it means to have breasts”, has won the 2017 Barbara Novak Award for Personal Essay with the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC). This essay explored my foray into burlesque dancing
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I’m excited to announce that my new essay, “Basically Broken” will appear in a new anthology with Simon & Schuster Canada in October, 2017. The book is titled Everyday Heroes: Inspirational Stories from Men and Women in the Canadian Armed Forces, with the incredible Jody Mitic, who I have endless respect for. The book collects veterans from
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I’m excited to announce that my new essay, “We Come and We Go,” will appear in the Waiting anthology, edited by Rona Altrows and Julie Sedivy. It’s been a long time in the works, so it’s exciting to see this project find a home with the University of Alberta Press. My essay details what it’s
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If you missed your mailing of a copy of “Fluidity,” my short story that won the House of Anansi Press Golden Anniversary Award, then you can still buy it now at their website for Just $0.99! It’s a short story about a couple who finds out an interesting detail about their marriage after 50 years
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I’m so pleased to announce that I have won the House of Anansi Press Golden Anniversary Award for my short story, “Fluidity.” House of Anansi publishes some of my most favourite authors, like Lisa Moore and Zoe Whittal, so to be published alongside these women is an honour. The contest required writers to submit a story
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I’m thrilled to officially announced that I am now represented by Transatlantic Agency and Stephanie Sinclair. Stephanie has believed in my intended project for more than a year, and I’m now proud of the collection of essays I have prepared to reflect on life in basic training. From the Transatlantic Announcement: Kelly is a former
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I’m so excited to announce that my essay “Strip, Reveal and Sex Appeal” will appear in Caitlin Press’s book, Boobs: Women discuss what it means to have breasts. The book will be edited by the amazing Ruth Daniell, who is an incredible poet and writer and also a fellow graduate of UBCs Creative Writing masters in fine
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In the latest step of my writer journey, I was honoured to be interviewed recently for the blog Geosi Reads. An avid reader himself with a passion for the literary arts, he has interviewed hundreds of writers all across the world and so I was honoured to be chosen by him to speak about my
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