Cassie Stocks
Auteur de Dance, Gladys, Dance (Nunatak First Fiction)
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Cassie Stocks as winner of 2013 Leacock Award.
Œuvres de Cassie Stocks
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Professions
- biker
actor
gardener
waiter
clerk
cleaner (tout afficher 8)
poultry farmer
writer - Prix et distinctions
- 2013 Leacock Award
- Courte biographie
- Cassie Stocks was born in Edmonton, Alberta. She’s been a biker chick, a university student, an actress, and a rich man’s gardener; she’s worked as a waitress, an office clerk, an aircraft cleaner, has raised chickens, and once upon a time, was even the caretaker of a hydroponic pot factory.
In 2002, she was accepted to the Writing With Style Workshop at the Banff Centre, where she received support and encouragement from Sharon Butala and the late Gloria Sawai. Upon her return to Edmonton, she quit her job at a steel fabrication plant and applied to the MacEwan Bachelor of Applied Communications Degree in Professional Writing Program.
Cassie was a winner in the CBC Alberta Anthology Short Fiction contest and a student writer for the Edmonton Voices portion of the Canadian Authors Series. Her short story “The Painter” aired on CBC Radio One. She completed her Bachelor of Applied Communications in Professional Writing Degree with Distinction from MacEwan University in 2011.
In 2013, Cassie became the first woman in 17 years to be awarded the Leacock Medal for humour writing for her first novel Dance, Gladys, Dance. The novel was also nominated for a Saskatchewan First Book Award. Cassie has been named one of “Ten Writers to Watch” by CBC Books.
Cassie lives in Eston, SK, with her son Julian.
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 29
- Popularité
- #460,290
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 5