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| Name | Dolly Benedicta Dennis |
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| Location | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Biography | An ex-Montrealer, living in Edmonton since 1993, Dolly Dennis is an award-winning playwright, a published poet, essayist and author, whose work has appeared in literary journals, newspapers, corporate newsletters, anthologies and the CBC. She has also been on the short-list for an Alberta literary Award for creative non-fiction. Her first novel, Loddy-Dah (Guernica Editions) is on the syllabus of the first year Womenês Literature course at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Conn. Her second book, The Complex Arms is published by Dundurn Press. She is also a visual artist and her paintings have been showcased in several group exhibitions in Edmonton and have sold. |
| Publications | Books _ The Complex Arms, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2020. _ Loddy-Dah, Guernica Editions, Essential Prose Series, Toronto, 2014, Since 2016 the book is on the syllabus for first year university students in Womenês Literature at Central Connecticut State University, Great Britain, Connecticut Short Stories _ Smoke Summer, 75th Writerês Digest Writing Competition, Honourable Mention, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2006. _ Airborne, Room Literary Magazine, Vancouver, 2001. _ Butterfly Fingers, Other Voices Literary Magazine, Honourable Mention, 2nd place winner, Edmonton, 1998. Creative Non-Fiction _ Advice from an Emerging Mature Writer, Westword magazine, Writersê Guild of Alberta, Edmonton, May/June 2016 _ Perennial, CBC Alberta Anthology, 2nd place winner under professional category, broadcast, Edmonton, 2005. _ A Father Knows Best Kind of Life, Standing Together anthology, Edmonton, 2005. _ Weighing the Baggage of a Catholic Upbringing, Offerings, Edmonton Journal, August 2, 1997. _ On Life, Love and Lasting Friendships, Voices, Edmonton Journal, September 18, 1995. _ The Job Finding ClubÄNo Joy Luck Club, editorial, Edmonton Journal, June 4, 1995. _ Santa Gets a Break from Seven Year Old, Voices, Edmonton Journal, December 21, 1994. Plays _ Mirror, Mirror, Jewish Drama League, Montreal, circa 1978. _ Plexiglass Box, Quebec Drama Festival of One-Act Plays (formerly Dominion Drama Festival), Montreal, circa 1977. _ Plexiglass Box, Revue Theatre, Montreal, circa 1977. Poetry _ Stroll of Poets Anthology, 2021 and 2022 _ Agoraphobic, 40 Below: Edmontonês Winter Anthology, Wufniks Press, November, 2013. _ Sketching My Mother from a Photo, Womenês Words, anthology, U of A Press, Edmonton, 2013. _ Home at Sunrise, Home and Away, anthology, Blue Skies Publishing, Edmonton, December 2009. Columnist _ Postcards from Edmonton, –Dialogue” magazine, Edmonton,1993-1999. _ Thoughts from a Working Mother, –Dialogue” magazine, Montreal,1989-1993. |
| Awards | _ Grant received from Edmonton Arts Council to write second novel, 2013. _ Perennial, creative non-fiction, shortlisted for the James H. Gray Award, Alberta Literary Awards, 2012. _ Plexiglass Box, Quebec Drama Festival of One-Act Plays, winning Best Director and Best Production, Montreal, circa 1977. |
| Experience | _ Co-founder, co-organizer, and publicist behind the Glass Door Coffee House Reading Series, which over a three-year period showcased 100 headliners, including a diversity of writers, singers and songwriters, both emerging and established, Edmonton, 2012-2015. _ Created, organized, and hosted panel discussion So You Finished Your Manuscript, Now What?, Words in 3D, Writers Conference, May 2013. _ Wrote numerous resumes and letters for clients as a freelance writer, Edmonton, 1995-2010. _ Volunteer, WGA Writers Conference, Banff, 1995. _ Volunteer, The Works Festival, Edmonton, 1994. _ Publicist, writer, and editor for Edmontonês Newcomers Club, 1994. _ Produced and designed flyers for the first multilingual and multicultural Canadian poetry reading series, Pluriel, Montreal, 1980-1985. _ Communications Officer for large pulp and paper company, providing employee profiles for corporate newsletters: CIP On the Move, Cambium, Look, Montreal, circa 1977. _ Actress, dancer and playwright at the Revue Theatre, Montreal, 1968-1978. _ Assistant to Director, Quebec Drama Festival, and Jewish Drama League, 1977-1978. |
| Memberships | _ Member, The Writers Union of Canada, 2013 to present. _ Member, Mill Woods Artists Collective since its inception, November 2011 to present. _ Member-at-large, Board of Directors, Canadian Authors Association, Alberta branch, 2010-2012. _ Member, professional-designated, Canadian Authors Association, 2006-2016 _ Member, the Writers Guild of Alberta, 1994 to present. |
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