Author Archives: caroline

Here’s the final version of the cover of Ellen In Pieces designed by the talented Michel Vrana!

Thrilled to have received an Advanced Reading Copy of Ellen in Pieces.  Thank you Harper Collins!

I’m delighted to be previewing a story from my upcoming novel Ellen in Pieces (Harper Collins 2014) at the Vancouver Writers Festival Incite reading series, March 5th.  The evening will be a celebration of 13: Best Canadian Stories (Oberon Press), which includes “Ellen-Celine, Celine-Ellen,” winner of the Gold Medal Award for Fiction at the 2013 National Magazine Awards.  I’ll …

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I just received my contributor’s copy of 13: Best Canadian Stories, selected by the inimitable John Metcalf.  This volume republishes “Ellen-Celine, Celine-Ellen,” which first appeared in Canadian Notes and Queries and won the 2013 National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Fiction. Wonderful to be between the covers with the likes of Cynthia Flood, Clark Blaise, Elisabeth …

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Another story from my upcoming novel-in-stories, Ellen in Pieces, has brought home a Gold Medal for Fiction.  This time it’s a 2013 National Magazine Award.  “Ellen-Celine, Celine-Ellen” was published in Canadian Notes and Queries.  Thanks so much to editor Dan Wells, who accepted the story.  Congratulations to all the nominees and winners.  Read the story.

The Sky Is Falling is one of six BC books chosen for THRIVE Reads, part of the Kamloops THRIVE festival.  Check out the other shortlisted titles.

I’m thrilled about another magazine award nomination for “I Feel Lousy,” originally published in Eighteen Bridges.  It’s up for a Western Magazine Award for Fiction.  Congratulations to all the nominees and thank you so much to editors Lynn Coady and Curtis Gillespie.

Two stories from Ellen In Pieces have been nominated for a National Magazine Award for Fiction: “Ellen-Celine, Celine-Ellen,” which appeared in Canadian Notes and Queries and is forthcoming in Best Canadian Stories 13, and “I Feel Lousy,” published in Eighteen Bridges, winner of the 2013 Gold Medal Award for Fiction from the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association.  Thank …

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“I Feel Lousy,” published in Eighteen Bridges, has won the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Gold Medal for Fiction.  The judges write: “Caroline Adderson takes on big themes of love, loyalty and betrayal in this deftly written story about the messiness of life and the triumph of the spirit.”  Thank you to the judges, the AMPA, and …

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“I Feel Lousy,” published in Eighteen Bridges, is up for an Alberta Magazine Award for fiction.  Thanks so much to editors Lynn Coady and Curtis Gillespie.  Read the complete list of nominees.