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Candas Jane Dorsey

Candas Jane Dorsey is an internationally-known, award-winning author of several novels, four poetry books; several anthologies edited/co-edited, and numerous published stories, poems, reviews, and critical essays. Her most recent fiction includes novels The Adventures of Isabel; What's the Matter with Mary Jane?; and The Man Who Wasn't There; and short fiction Vanilla and Other Stories and . For fourteen years, she was the editor/publisher of the literary press, The Books Collective, including River Books and, for a time, Tesseract Books. She was founding president of SFCanada, and has been president of the Writers Guild of Alberta. She has received a variety of awards and honours for her books and short fiction, including most recently, the 2017 the WGA Golden Pen Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Literary Arts. She was inducted into the City of Edmonton Arts and Cultural Hall of Fame in 2019. She is also a community activist, advocate and leader who has served on many community boards and committees for working for neighbourhoods, heritage, social planning and human rights advocacy. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

Books by Candas Jane Dorsey

He Wasn’t There Again Today

An Epitome Apartments Mystery

by (author) Candas Jane Dorsey

The Story of My Life Ongoing, by C. S. Cobb

by (author) Candas Jane Dorsey
read by Perrie Voss

The Story of My Life Ongoing, by C.S. Cobb

by (author) Candas Jane Dorsey

Shapers of Worlds Volume II

Science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers

by (author) Edward Willett, Kelley Armstrong, Marie Brennan, Garth Nix, Candas Jane Dorsey, Jeremy Szal, Jeffrey A. Carver, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, David D. Levine, Lisa Foiles, Susan Forest, Matthew Hughes, Heli Kennedy, Helen Dale, Adria Laycraft, Edward Savio, Lisa Kessler, ira Nayman, Carrie Vaughn, Nancy Kress, James Alan Gardner, Tim Pratt, Barbara Hambly & S.M. Stirling

What’s the Matter with Mary Jane?

An Epitome Apartments Mystery

by (author) Candas Jane Dorsey

Seasons Between Us

Tales of Identities and Memories

edited by Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law
by (author) Vanessa Cardui, Tyler Keevil, Rich Larson, Karin Lowachee, Brent Nichols, Heather Osborne, Amanda Sun, Hayden Trenholm, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, C.J. Cheung, Y.M. Pang, Patrick Swenson, Bev Geddes, S.B. Divya, Karina Sumner-Smith, Joyce Chng, Eric Choi, Maurice Broaddus, Bogi Takács, Maria Haskins, Alan Dean Foster & Jane Yolen
introduction by Candas Jane Dorsey

Seasons Between Us (Large Print)

Tales of Identities and Memories

edited by Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law
by (author) Vanessa Cardui, Tyler Keevil, Rich Larson, Karin Lowachee, Brent Nichols, Heather Osborne, Amanda Sun, Hayden Trenholm, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, C.J. Cheung, Y.M. Pang, Patrick Swenson, Bev Geddes, S.B. Divya, Karina Sumner-Smith, Joyce Chng, Eric Choi, Maurice Broaddus, Bogi Takács, Maria Haskins, Alan Dean Foster & Jane Yolen
introduction by Candas Jane Dorsey

The Adventures of Isabel

An Epitome Apartments Mystery

by (author) Candas Jane Dorsey

Tesseracts 8

edited by John Clute & Candas Jane Dorsey

Tesseracts 3

by (author) Candas Jane Dorsey
cover design or artwork by Ron Lightburn

A Paradigm of Earth

by (author) Candas Jane Dorsey

Vanilla and Other Stories

by (author) Candas Jane Dorsey