Cassie Stocks
Cassie Stocks is a Canadian writer, who won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 2013 for her debut novel, Dance, Gladys, Dance.[1]
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Stocks is currently based in Eston, Saskatchewan.[2] In addition to her writing, she worked at the town's Co-op store.[3] She worked at a steel plant when she was first accepted to a writing workshop at the Banff Centre in 2002, and subsequently left that job to study professional writing at Grant MacEwan University.[2]
Works[]
- Dance, Gladys, Dance (2012, NeWest Press. ISBN 978-1-897126-76-9.)
References[]
- ^ "Cassie Stocks wins Stephen Leacock Award". CBC Arts, April 25, 2013.
- ^ a b "Eston author Cassie Stocks wins Leacock Medal" Archived June 10, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Regina Leader-Post, June 7, 2013.
- ^ "Cassie Stocks’s Leacock win cause for celebration in Eston, Sask."[permanent dead link]. Edmonton Journal, May 2, 2013.
Categories:
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- Stephen Leacock Award winners
- Canadian women novelists
- Writers from Edmonton
- Writers from Saskatchewan
- Living people
- MacEwan University alumni
- People from Eston, Saskatchewan
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Women humorists
- Canadian writer stubs