Cecelia Frey

Cecelia Frey 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]

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[]

• Lovers Fall Back To Earth (Inanna Publications, 2018)
• Moments of Joy (Inanna Publications, 2015)
• The Long White Sickness (Inanna Publications, 2013)
• A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing (, 2009)
• A Fine Mischief (, 2004)
• The Prisoner of Cage Farm (University of Calgary Press, 2003)
• Breakaway (Macmillan Publishers, 1974)

Short Fiction[]

• Salamander Moon (, 1997)
• The Love Song of Romeo Paquette (, 1990)
• The Nefertiti Look (Thistledown Press, 1987)

Poetry[]

• North (, 2017)
• Under Nose Hill (Bayeux Arts, 2009)
• reckless women (, 2004)
• And Still I hear Her Singing (, 2000)
• Songs Like White Apples Tasted (Bayeux Arts, 1998)
• the least you can do is sing (, 1982)

Drama[]

• The Dinosaur Connection (CBC, Vanishing Point Series, 1988)

Nonfiction[]

• Phyllis Webb: An Annotated Bibliography, The Annotated Bibliography of Canada’s Major Authors Series (ECW Press, 1985)^[7]

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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