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 my short story, “Widow,” appear in the latest issue of Carte Blanche, one of my favourite literary magazines! This story is a feminist creed for redefining how we view feminism. I hope you enjoy it! Widow- Carte Blanche, Kelly S. Thompson
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I’m honoured to have my essay about my sister appear in the March issue of Maclean’s, as part of their Before You Go series. The article is a letter to my sister, sick with terminal cancer, which highlights the beauty of family and the challenge of regrets. https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/a-writer-to-her-dying-sister-we-tell-ourselves-lies-to-survive/
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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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Everyday Heroes: Inspirational Stories of Men and Women in the Canadian Armed Forces Recently, I was lucky to visit The Morning Show on Global with Editor, Jody Mitic, to chat with Jeff and Carolyn about Everyday Heroes: Inspirational stories from men and women in the Canadian Armed Forces, which just released with Simon & Schuster
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You still have time to enrol in my course, Telling True Stories, at Royal Roads University Continuing Education Department. The course is four weeks long, distanced learning, and allows students to explore the creative non fiction genre in all it’s forms, including lyric, flash, memoir, biography, and so much more. The course description reads: Everyone
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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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I’m so excited to teach my upcoming course, Telling True Stories, at Royal Roads University Continuing Education Department. The course is four weeks long, distanced learning, and allows students to explore the creative non fiction genre in all it’s forms, including lyric, flash, memoir, biography, and so much more. The course description reads: Everyone has
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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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