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Photo credit
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Barbara Joan Scott
BIO
Biography
Barbara Joan 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, published by Freehand Books was a Quill and Quire Book of the Year for 2022 and has been shortlisted for the Kobzar Book Award for 2024.
ADDRESS
City: Calgary,
Province/Territory: Alberta
EMAIL
c/o TWUC
GENRE
Fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
The Quick: Short Stories
Publisher
Cormorant Books Inc.
Year
1999
Title
The Taste of Hunger
Publisher
Freehand Books
Year
2022
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Winner, City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Award
Publication
The Quick
Year
1999
Name
Winner, Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Fiction
Publication
The Quick
Year
1999
Name
Shortlisted, Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book
Publication
The Quick
Year
1999
Name
Lois Hole Award for Editorial Excellence
Year
2015
Name
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award
Publication
"Black Diamond"
Year
2021
Name
Bronze Medal for Western Canada Region, Indpendent Publisher Book Awards
Publication
The Taste of Hunger
Year
2023
Name
Alberta Book Publishers Association Trade Book of the Year, shortlisted
Publication
The Taste of Hunger
Year
2023
Name
Kobzar Book Award, shortlisted
Publication
The Taste of Hunger
Year
2024
Name
CBC Non-fiction Prize, shortlisted
Publication
“Black Diamond”
Year
2023
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Programs & Interests
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