BarbaraLanghorst

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NameBarbara Langhorst
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Websitebarbaralanghorst.com
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LocationEdmonton, Alberta
Biography

Barbara Langhorst’s debut collection, restless white fields, won awards for poetry in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Her first novel, WANT, was shortlisted for the Regina Public Library’s Book of the Year Award. For nearly twenty years, she had the privilege of working with many of Canada's finest writers while hosting the Canada Council for the Arts Readings Series and arranging the annual writing workshops for St. Peter's College in Muenster, SK. During the pandemic, she and her husband moved home to Edmonton, where she continues to work as a writer, mentor, editor, and instructor. Her most recent novel, The Winter Blooming Tree, was released in October of 2021.

Publications

The Winter-Blooming Tree (Palimpsest 2021)
WANT (Palimpsest 2018)
restless white fields (NeWest 2012)

Awards

Shortlisted for the Regina Public Library's Book of the Year, 2019 (WANT)
Winner, Saskatchewan Arts Board Poetry Book of the Year 2013 (restless white fields)
Winner, Alberta Booksellers Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book of the Year 2013 (restless white fields)

Experience

Mentor, MFA in Writing, University of Saskatchewan
Instructor, Creative Writing/English (MacEwan University, University of Saskatchewan, St. Peter's College, University of Alberta)
Participant, Fiction Colloquium, Sage Hill (Guy Vanderhaghe)
Graduate Certificate: Creative Writing, Fiction, Humber College (mentor Sandra Birdsell)
Ph.D. in English Literature, University of Alberta

Memberships

The Writers' Union of Canada
Writers' Guild of Alberta
Saskatchewan Writers' Guild

Genres
  • Autobiography / Biography / Memoir
  • Comedy / Humour
  • Creative Nonfiction
  • Literary Fiction
  • Poetry
Services
  • Copy Editing
  • Editing
  • Lectures / Public Speaking
  • Manuscript Reading / Consultation
  • Mentoring
  • Proofreading
  • Readings - Adult
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