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| Name | Barbara Joan Scott |
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| Location | Calgary, Alberta |
| Biography | Barbara Scott is a Calgary fiction writer. Her first collection of short stories, The Quick, was selected for the Toronto Star's list of must read books of 1999. Her work has been published in such literary magazines as Grain and Prairie Fire, and has been anthologized in Due West, Albert Re/Bound and several school texts. Scott has a BA and MA in English from the University of Calgary. She has taught various creative writing courses and workshops, and is also an award-winning editor of fiction and creative non-fiction. Her first novel, The Taste of Hunger, is forthcoming from Freehand Books in Fall of 2022. |
| Publications | The Quick Cormorant Books 1999 First Writes Banff Centre Press 2005 co-edited with Sue Goyette and Kelley Aitken The Taste of Hunger fothcoming with Freehand Books Fall of 2022 |
| Awards | Writers' Guild of Alberta Howard OHagan Award for Best Short Fiction 1999 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize for 1999 Shortlisted for the Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book 1999 Lois Hole Award for Editorial Excellence, 2015 Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award for "Black Diamond", 2021 |
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