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Abdou, Angie
Albert, Lyle Victor
Aleksiuk, Michael
André, F.B.
Baldwin, Beulah
Barbour, Douglas
Barclay, Byrna
Belke, David
Bell, John
Berkhout, Nina
Bischoff, Theanna
Blodgett, E.D.
Blondin, George
Boyden, Joseph
Brandt, Di
Brewster, Eva
Bryan, D.M.
Budde, Robert
Butler, Jenna
Chan, Marty
Chard, Rosie
Cook, Meira
Craddock, Chris
Crate, Joan
Cutler, Laura
Darion, R. F.
Das, Satya
Davey, Frank
Davie, Michael
de Leeuw, Sarah
Denesiuk, Marci
Dewinetz, Jason
Domokos, Alex
Dooley, Anne M.
Dorsey, Candas Jane
Dragland, Stan
Dubé, Paulette
Edwards, Catarina
Ferguson, Ted
Firth, John
Flahiff, Fred
Fletcher, Olivia
Fraser, Brad
Froese, Gayleen
Fuller, Colleen
Gibson, Diana
Godard, Barbara
Goto, Hiromi
Gowan, Elsie Park
Gray, R.W.
Gunning, Margaret
Hegerat, Betty Jane
Hellum, A.K.
Hill, Gerald
Howard, Barb
Hudson, Elizabeth
Hunter, Don
Huser, Glen
Innes, Roy
Johnston, Wayne
Kent-McDonald, Deanna
Kidd, Monica
Kingscote, Barbara
Kiyooka, Roy Kenzie
Kostash, Myrna
Kreisel, Henry
Kroetsch, Robert
Legault, Stephen
Lein, Beverly
Lemay, Shawna
Lemoine, Stewart
Leslie, Rosella
Lewis, A.C.
Lisac, Mark
Malcolm, Murray J.
Margoshes, Dave
Marlatt, Daphne
Massing, Conni
Mayr, Suzette
McLachlan, Elizabeth
McTavish, Don
Meese, Eugene
Meili, Diane
Metikosh, Anne
Morris, Miggs Wynne
Moure, Erín
Nelson, Thomas
North, Suzanne
Orrell, John
Paré, Arleen
Pengilly, Gordon
Pepper-Smith, Robert
Perreault and Vance, Jeanne and Sylvia
Pollock, Sharon
Potvin, Liza
Powe, Bruce Allen
Pratt, Larry
Quartermain, Meredith
Ranson, Rick
Rhodes, Shane
Ricou, Laurie
Ross, Michael
Ross, Morton L.
Rowe, Stan
Ryan, Garry
Sampson, Connie
Sando, Tom
Scobie, Stephen
Scott, William Neil
Shorten, Lynda
Simon, Jessica
Smith, H.J.
Smith, Steven Ross
Stewart, Kay
Taylor, Margie
Thompson, Margaret
Toews, Rita
Trussler, Michael
Tumanov, Alla
Urquhart, Ian
van Herk, Aritha
Waddell, Ian
Wah, Fred
Walters, Mary
Weaver, Andy
Wharton, Thomas
Wiebe, Rudy
Wiesenthal, Christine
Williamson, Janice
Wilson, Garrett
Wyman, D.M.
Zorn, Alice
Zwicker, Heather
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Candas Jane Dorsey 

 Edmonton-born and based, a writer from an early age, and a freelance writer since 1980, Candas Jane Dorsey writes across genre boundaries: poetry, fiction (mainstream and speculative, short and long form), non-fiction and professional writing. Her oeuvre includes: novels Black Wine (Tor, 1997, winner of Tiptree, Crawford and Aurora Awards) and A Paradigm of Earth (Tor, 2002, shortlisted for Sunburst and Spectrum Awards); short story collections, Machine Sex and other stories (Tessetact Books, 1988), Dark Earth Dreams (Tesseract Books, 1994), and Vanilla and other stories (NeWest, 2000) (winner of the WGA Short Fiction Award); four poetry books; several anthologies edited/co-edited, and numerous stories, poems, reviews, critical essays, and rants in anthologies and magazines--and she won the Three-Day Novel-Writing Contest with Nora Abercrombie for Hardwired Angel (Pulp Press, 1987).


Founding member and past publisher of The Books Collective, professional independent trade publisher 1992-2006, including past-publisher and editor-in-chief of: (1994-2003) Tesseract Books (Canadian speculative fiction) and (1992-2006) River Books (Canadian literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry). She  teaches and speaks widely on SF and other topics, and was founding president of SFCanada, the only Canadian professional writers’ organisation operating in both official languages.


Active educator since 1983, teaching part-time in the Professional Writing program at Grant MacEwan College, as well as writing and writing-related courses, and workshops for University of Alberta Faculty of Extension, Metro Continuing Education, and other school, college, university and continuing education venues. Extensive travel as a teacher, writer-in-residence lecturer and keynote speaker.


Since 1979 a freelance writer and editor, including: journalism; magazine/newspaper writing, editing and production; book, report, course and manual editing and production; educational documents, course design and editing, and educational media scripts; technical writing (software documentation and help file architecture); public information material; and consulting on communication needs. Founding partner of Wooden Door and Associates, professional communications company since 1991. Has done much community development in the writing, arts, and cultural communities, and has served on the executive (vice-president, president and past-president) of the Writers' Guild of Alberta.

Of note: one of her short stories appeared in NeWest Press' inaugural 1979 publication, Being There, a collection of short stories by five female writers, edited by Rudy Wiebe.

Awards include Edmonton Arts Award, Aurora Award, Tiptree Award, Crawford Award, Todd Janes Award, WGA Short Fiction Award, and the Alberta Centennial Gold Medal for her community advocacy and achievement in the arts.

Photograph: Hugh A. D. Spencer

 

 

 
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