Caroline Adderson
Works by Caroline Adderson:
From ABC BookWorld, "After a year in New Orleans and a year in Toronto, she moved back to Vancouver where she studied at UBC. She has taught ESL at a community college and twice won prizes in the CBC literary competition. Adderson has had a radio play broadcast on CBC Radio's Morningside and her feature-length screenplay, Ying-Yang, has been produced in Vancouver. Her stories have been widely published in magazines and one story, 'Oil and Dread,' was selected for the Journey Prize Anthology 5. Carol Adderson's papers are at SFU Special Collections.
Caroline Adderson is the only author to have won both of B.C.'s top fiction prizes--the Ethel Wilson Prize for adult fiction (in 1994 and 2005) and the Sheila Egoff Prize for children's literature (in 2013). Her first short story collection, Bad Imaginings (Porcupine's Quill, 1993) was also shortlisted for the 1993 Governor General's Award and the Commonwealth Book Prize. Adderson later received the 2006 Marion Engel Award and her young adult novel Middle of Nowhere (Groundwood 2012) received the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize for best non-illustrated book for children in 2013 [as shown, photo by Monica Miller]. Sitting Practice was shortlisted for the 2004 VanCity Book Prize for best book pertaining to women's issues by a B.C. author. A History of Forgetting was nominated for the 2000 Rogers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.""
She presented at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, Sechelt in 2007 and 2015.