Cecelia Frey

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Cecelia Frey
NationalityCanadian
OccupationNovelist, Poet, Writer
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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]

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Biography

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

Fiction

Short fiction

Poetry

Drama

Nonfiction

Awards and honours

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]

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References

  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.
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