BarbHoward

Author of 4 novels and one short story collection. Co-editor of an essay anthology on the military homefront.

Calgary Writing Mentor for The Shoe Project – a national literacy project for refugee and immigrant women.

2013 Calgary Public Library Writer-in-Residence

Former lawyer and legal editor with an MA in Creative Writing.

Books*:
Happy Sands (novella, University of Calgary Press, 2021)
Western Taxidermy (short story collection, NeWest Press, 2012)
Embedded on the Home Front: Where Military and Civilian Lives Converge (co-editor, essay anthology, Heritage House, 2012)
The Dewpoint Show (YA novel, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2010)
Notes for Monday (novella, Recliner Books, 2009)
Whipstock (novel, NeWest Press, 2001)

*For individual story and article publications: see www.barbhoward.ca

Finalist 2022 Alberta Trade Fiction Book of the Year at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards
2018 - Short story chosen as part of the permanent Print(ed) Word exhibit at the new Calgary Central Library
Finalist 2017 Carte Blanche and Creative Nonfiction Collective essay contest
Runner-up 2015 Canadian Authors' Association (BC Branch) Short Fiction Contest
Finalist 2013 High Plains Book Awards
Winner 2012 CAA (Alberta Branch) Exporting Alberta Award
Finalist 2012 Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature
Finalist 2012 Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Story
Winner 2009 Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Story
Finalist 2007 Western Magazine Awards
Finalist 2007 Alberta Views Short Fiction Contest
Winner 2005 Prairie Anthology Writing Competition
Winner 2002 Alberta Views short Fiction Contest
Finalist 2001 Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book
Winner 1995 Canadian Lawyer Short Story Contest
Winner 1995 Calgary Writers Association Sunshine Sketches Award

2021 Writing Mentor for Own Voices Alberta
2017- 2022 Calgary Story Mentor for The Shoe Project: a writing and performance workshop for immigrant women
2015/16 President of the WGA
2013 Writer-in-Residence for the Calgary Public Library
20+ years' experience as a mentor, workshop leader, and creative writing instructor, both online and onsite. Past employers include: UCalgary, Alexandra Writers' Centre, Science and Communication Program at the Banff Centre, and various schools and conferences.

WGA
CAA
TWUC
AWCS

• Autobiography / Biography / Memoir
• Comedy / Humour
• Creative Nonfiction
• Essay
• General Fiction
• General Nonfiction
• Short Stories

• Editing
• Manuscript Reading / Consultation
• Mentoring
• Readings - Adult
• Substantive / Structural Editing
• Workshops - Adult