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Cecelia Frey

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Cecelia Frey
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Novelist, Poet, Writer
Websitececeliafrey.wordpress.com

Cecelia Frey (born 1936) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and short story writer. [1][2] Her works have appeared in literary magazines and in numerous anthologies, and broadcast on CBC Radio as well as produced by the Women's Television Network.[3] She was the 2018 recipient of the Golden Pen Lifetime Achievement Award.[4]

Biography

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Cecelia Frey was born in 1936 on a homestead near Padstow south of Mayorthorpe, Alberta, and moved to Edmonton where she worked as a social worker and librarian. In 1970, she launched her writing career by attending the University of Calgary where she took a writing course with W.O. Mitchell. She has since worked as a freelance writer, editor and teacher. An organizer and producer of the Calgary Creative Reading Series, she served as fiction editor of Dandelion Magazine from 1983-1988.[5][6]

Frey lives in Calgary, Alberta.

Bibliography

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Fiction

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Short fiction

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Poetry

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Drama

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  • The Dinosaur Connection (CBC, Vanishing Point Series, 1988)

Nonfiction

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  • Phyllis Webb: An Annotated Bibliography, The Annotated Bibliography of Canada’s Major Authors Series (ECW Press, 1985)[7]

Awards and honours

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Her novel, A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing, was shortlisted for the 2009 Writer's Guild of Alberta George Bugnet Fiction Award and she is a three-time recipient of the WGA Short Fiction Award. Her novel, Lovers Fall Back to Earth, was a finalist for the 2019 International Book Awards (Fiction-Literary). She has also won awards for play writing.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Cecelia Frey". JSTOR. Retrieved June 19, 2019.
  2. ^ "Calgary Author Touches on Tough Subject". Okotoks Western Wheel. Retrieved June 19, 2019.
  3. ^ "Calgary author Cecelia Frey tackles death, family strife and the transcendence of joy in new novel". Calgary Herald. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
  4. ^ "Writers' Guild of Alberta: WGA Golden Pen Award Past Recipients". Writers' Guild of Alberta. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
  5. ^ "Cecelia Frey fonds". University of Calgary Archives and Special Collections website. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
  6. ^ Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press. 2002. p. 399.
  7. ^ "Cecelia Frey - Published Works". ceceliafrey.wordpress.com. Cecelia Frey. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  8. ^ "Calgary author Cecelia Frey tackles death, family strife and the transcendence of joy in new novel". Calgary Herald. Retrieved June 18, 2019.