Authors & Headliners

Katie Bickell is author of Always Brave, Sometimes Kind, a novel told in short stories. She is the recipient of the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, the Alberta Indie Project Award, the Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story, the Alberta Views Fiction Prize, the WGA’s Emerging Writer Award, and the Voices of Motherhood Essay Prize. Katie works as a ghostwriter, manuscript consultant, and creative writing instructor, and is currently penning her second novel, Alskling.