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| Name | Pearl Lorentzen |
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| Location | Slave Lake, Alberta |
| Biography | Pearl Lorentzen is a journalist and poet, who occasionally writes fiction. She is the 2021 recipient of the Canadian Mental Health Association Communications Award (for Alberta).Her poetry has appeared in Visual Verse, the Glass Buffalo, and The Liar. Her fiction has been published in AE scifi.¾ Pearl runs the writers' group at the Rotary Club of Slave Lake Public Library. In 2019, she taught a children's writing workshops at an art camp.¾She has an MA in creative writing the novel from Brunel University London, and¾a BA in linguistics with a minor in creative writing from the University of Alberta. |
| Publications | « December 2022 chosen as one of the lead writers on Visual Verse « Lorentzen, P. (2022) –Postage Stamp”, Visual Verse, vol. 09, ch. 12 « Lorentzen, P. (2022) –Filter Moonlight”, Visual Verse, vol. 09, ch. 11 « Lorentzen, P. (2022) –The Silliness Test”,Visual Verse, vol. 09, ch. 8 « Lorentzen, P. (2020)¾–Wood Buffalo Scullery”,¾AE Scifi, Stargazers (Micro) Tales From the Cosmos « Lorentzen, P. (2020 to 2022) more poems on Visual Verse,¾https://visualverse.org/writers/pearl-lorentzen/ « Lorentzen, P. (March 2019 to present) articles, commentaries, and photography weekly in the Lakeside Leader and online at lakesideleader.com. « Lorentzen, P. (2019) –Dishonourable Heft”, Visual Verse, Vol. 6, Ch. 03 « Harker, B., Leung, M., Nenadi_, F., Fonseca, D., Halfyard, S., Kelley, M., Lorentzen, P., Sinclair, M., & Tucker, B. V. (2018) –Massive Auditory Lexical Decision: Investigating Performance in Noisy Environments”. Presented at the 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Edmonton, Canada, September 2018. « Lorentzen, P. (2018) –Pewter”, Visual Verse, Vol. 5, Ch. 7 « Lorentzen, P. (2016) –Rewind”, Glass Buffalo, vol. 5 no. 1, Winter « Lorentzen, P. (2016) –Svay Pak”, Glass Buffalo, vol. 5 no. 1, Winter « Lorentzen, P. (2012) –In the Desert Again: Poseidon 9 Amphitrite 10”, The Liar, vol. 9 « Lorentzen, P. (2011) –Nihon”, The Liar, vol. 8 « Lorentzen, P. (2011) –The Form”, The Liar, vol. 7 |
| Awards | « 2021 Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association – honourable mention – Best Habitat Conservation Story – https://www.lakesideleader.com/swan-river-first-nation-working-toward-ecological-reconciliation/ « 3rd Runner-up Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing (2017) « Sandra Isabel McArthur Brouwer Award for Creative Writing (2012) |
| Experience | I am working as a journalist. I have experience running writers groups. |
| Memberships | Writer's Guild of Alberta |
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