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Photo credit
Monique de St-Croix
Lori Hahnel
BIO
Biography

Lori Hahnel is the award-winning author of five books of fiction. Her latest novel, Flicker, was published in the University of Calgary Press’ Brave & Brilliant Series in 2023 and shortlisted for the Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction in the 2024 Alberta Book Publishing Awards. Vermin: Stories shortlisted for several awards and won a 2022 Alberta Literary Award. Her other books are the novels Love Minus Zero and After You’ve Gone, and the story collection Nothing Sacred, which was a finalist for an Alberta Literary Award. Her work has been broadcast on CBC Radio and CKUA Radio, and published in The Fiddlehead, Joyland, The Saturday Evening Post, The Hingston & Olsen Short Story Advent Calendar and many other journals and anthologies. She is currently at work on a novel based on the life of the 19th century pianist and composer Clara Schumann.

ADDRESS
City: Calgary, Province/Territory: Alberta
EMAIL
GENRE
Fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Flicker
Publisher
University of Calgary Press Brave & Brilliant Series
Year
2023
Title
Vermin: Stories
Publisher
Enfield & Wizenty / Great Plains
Year
2020
Title
After You've Gone
Publisher
Thistledown Press
Year
2014
Title
Nothing Sacred
Publisher
Thistledown Press
Year
2009
Title
Love Minus Zero
Publisher
Oberon Press
Year
2008
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction (Alberta Book Publishing Awards), shortlisted
Year
2024
Name
Alberta Literary Award (Short Story Collection Award), winner
Publication
Vermin: Stories
Year
2022
Name
Glengarry Book Award, shortlisted
Publication
Vermin: Stories
Year
2021
Name
High Plains Book Award, shortlisted
Publication
Vermin: Stories
Year
2021
Name
CAA Fred Kerner Award, shortlisted
Publication
Vermin: Stories
Year
2021
Name
Georges Bugnet Award (Alberta Literary Awards), finalist
Publication
Nothing Sacred
Year
2010
Name
CAA Exporting Alberta Award, Honorable Mention
Publication
Nothing Sacred
Year
2010
Name
Calgary Public Library Foundation Literary Award, longlisted
Publication
Love Minus Zero
Year
2009
Name
Tom Howard / John H. Reid Short Story Contest, Highly Commended
Publication
"We Had Faces Then"
Year
2007
Name
Million Writers Award, Notable Story of 2006
Publication
"This is a Test", The Menda City Review
Year
2006
Name
PRISM International Short Fiction Contest, shortlisted
Publication
"Blue Lake"
Year
2005
Name
CBC Radio’s Alberta Anthology Competition, winner
Publication
"The Pass"
Year
2005
Name
FreeFall Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention
Publication
"Nothing Sacred"
Year
2003
Name
Alice Munro Festival of Writing Contest, second place
Publication
"We Had Faces Then"
Year
2005
Name
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LINKS
Links
www.lorihahnel.ca
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