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Kelly is now a member of the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society, which strives to support Canadian creative nonfiction. Nonfiction can be a wide variety of things including memoir, personal essay, biography, travel, history, etc. You can find out more information on the collective at their website.

I am so excited to announce that I have been awarded a two week independent residency at the Leighton Artists’ Colony at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta. It’s long been a dream of mine to go…who wouldn’t want a two week time to spend on writing, writing and some more writing? The application process

Kelly has been named the 2013 winner of the Barbara Novak Writing Award for Excellence in Personal Essay or Humour Writing. Kelly won the award for her essay, “We Are a (Military) Family,” which appeared in the Heritage House book Embedded on the Home Front: Where Civilian and Military Lives Converge. The award is given each

Recently, Embedded on the Home Front: Where military and civilian lives converge, was nominated for a CBC Bookie Box of Tissues Award, the book most likely to make you cry! The book was published by Heritage House Press in fall, 2012 and featured essays by those who experienced military life on the home front perspective.

My essay “We Are a (Military) Family” appeared in Embedded on the Home Front: Where military and civilian lives converge, published by Heritage House Press in September of 2012. The book has been nominated for a CBC Bookie Award in the category of “Box of Tissues Award for the Book That Made You Sob Uncontrollably.”

Kelly has now taken on the role of President of the Professional Writers Association of Canada Vancouver Chapter. It should be a great year for the chapter with new monthly socials being held and an updated presence online.

Kelly Thompson has been hired as the Program Facilitator for Hot Ink, a Creative Writing program for young women in grades 8-12. The program is run through the Richmond Women’s Resource Centre and is designed to help young ladies reach their greatest potential. Kelly is responsible for writing all of the lesson plans and providing

I have a new article that came out today on Straight.com titled Soldiers are Real, Not Rambos. Straight.com is the online version of the Georgia Straight newspaper, published weekly here in Vancouver, BC. The article outlines some of the ridiculous questions that military people are often asked and focuses on the fact that military members

Embedded on the Home Front: Where Military and Civilian Lives Converge has been released by Heritage House Press this week. You can buy a copy, or the ebook version, at any Chapters, Amazon or directly from Heritage House Press. Kelly’s essay, “We Are a (Military) Family” is one of 14 essays to appear in the

Kelly has now taken on the position of vice president of the Vancouver chapter of the Professional Writers Association of Canada. Kelly hopes to help increase PWAC memberships and promote the association and all the benefits. Check out writers.ca, where this fall, PWAC will launch a new version of the site where employers can buy