2022/2023 Manuscript reviewers
Literary/Contemporary fiction - novels, short stories
Katie Bickell is the author of Always Brave, Sometimes Kind, a novel told in short stories. She is the recipient of the 2020 Georges Bugnet Fiction Award, the 2017 Writers Guild of Alberta’s Emerging Writer Award, the 2015 Alberta View Fiction Prize, the 2014 Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story, and the 2011 Voices of Motherhood Essay Contest. Katie lives in Sherwood Park, Alberta, with her husband and daughters.
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Science Fiction & Fantasy - novel and short stories
Susan Forest is the author of dual Aurora Award-winners Bursts of Fire (2019) and Flights of Marigold (2020) as well as over 25 internationally-published short stories (Analog, Asimov's, Beneath Ceaseless Skies). She edits an award-winning anthology series for Laksa Media Groups, was Editor Guest of Honour at Keycon in 2022, and has been invited to co-edit Life Beyond Us, coming out from the European Astrobiology Institute in 2022. Gathering of Ghosts, the third novel of her Addicted to Heaven series (forthcoming, 2023) confronts issues of addictions in an epic fantasy world of intrigue and betrayal.
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Literary/Contemporary/Science Fiction & Fantasy/Horror, Creative Nonfiction/Memoir - novels, short stories
Sarah Pratt is a bookseller, literary events coordinator, editor, publisher, and creative writing instructor. An Alberta Magazine Publishers Association finalist, her short fiction has appeared in Room, Plenitude, On Spec, and the Shirley Jackson award winning anthology TWISTED BOOK OF SHADOWS (Haverhill Press, 2019). She is the author of one collection of short stories SUICIDE STITCH (EMP Publishing 2015) and her debut novel, INFRACTUS (Coffin Hop Press, 2017). She is co-editor at The Seventh Terrace, a small press for horror fiction.
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Children's Books - Pictures, middle grade, YA
Jan Markley is an author living in Calgary, Alberta. A former journalist, she holds a Master of Arts degree in Anthropology. Jan has authored two humourous middle-grade novels: Dead Frog on the Porch (Gumboot Books 2009) – shortlisted for the Golden Eagle Children's Choice Book Award (2011/12) and Dead Bird through the Cat Door (Gumboot Books 2010) – shortlisted for the inaugural John Spray Mystery Award (2011). She most recently served as a jury member for the 2022 Children's Literature Award for the Saskatchewan Book Awards. When not picking cat hair off her sweater, Jan can be found in her Sasquatch writing cave with a mug of chai tea working on her current works-in-progress including a contemporary young adult manuscript and a humourous workplace memoir entitled Too Jaded to be Bitter: The Memoir of a Burnt-Out Bureaucrat.
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Poetry/Creative Nonfiction/Memoir/Fiction
When Peter Midgley let out his first yelp, the doctor said, “F$%^! Put a stopper in that!” So the nurse shoved his foot in his mouth, which is where it has been ever since. He takes it out to change feet, or to yell “Children, behave…!" at the world. His karoake is off-key. Peter is the author of 12 books and plays, and piles of unfinished manuscripts. He has been editing books and offering feedback to authors for thirty years. His awards and accolades could fill the drawer of a filing cabinet, if he had one. You can explore his verbal contortions and explore his approach to writing and editing at www.midgley.ca.
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Literary/Contemporary/Historical/Humour/Horror Fiction - novels, short stories
Jason Pearce is a Toronto-based fiction writer who first joined the Alexandra Writer’s Centre Society in 2003. Jason’s short stories have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, including Grain and Knucklehead Noir (Coffin Hop Press, 2019). He has also published articles on writing and literature, including two entries in The Robert Frost Encyclopedia (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001). Jason holds an M.A. in English Literature and has taught undergraduate poetry, prose and drama.
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Memoir, History, Creative Nonfiction, Historical Fiction
Faye Reineberg Holt has authored 13 books related to Western Canada, all published by trade publishers. She self-published 1 book for mid-grade readers and co-authored a travel book. Faye has been an editor for a trade publisher, a magazine and many private clients. Also, she has published poetry, short stories, articles and interviews in magazines. A former teacher, museum educator and writing instructor, she loves any work related to the past and Canada. Twice a writer-in -residence, she prefers memoirs, historical fiction, creative nonfiction and history but no science fiction or fantasy.
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