BARBARA NICKEL

Barbara Nickel has cycled through Vietnam, taught English in Puerto Rico, and spent a year of her childhood in Kenya. A resident of B.C., Barbara holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, where she was the poetry editor of PRISM international and has also instructed writing classes. In addition to being an award-winning poet and novelist, Barbara is an accomplished violinist.

Fiction:

Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach
Penguin Canada, 2005

• Nominee, 2007 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award (MYRCA)
• Nominee, 2006/2007 Chocolate Lily Young Readers Choice Award
• Nominee, 2006 Snow Willow, Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Award
• 2006 Sheila A. Egoff Award for Children's Literature, BC
• Nominee, 2006 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award
• Nominee, 2005 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature

Selected Work:

The Gladys Elegies Coteau Books, 1997

Poetry: Adult Collection

The Gladys Elegies Coteau Books, 1997

• Winner, Pat Lowther Memorial Award
  Best Book of Poetry by a Canadian Woman.
• Earlier manuscript, Second place, 1995 Kalamalka Press New Writers Competition

Poetry: Children's Collection

From the Top of a Grain Elevator Kathy Thiessen, illustrator,
Beach Holme Publishing, 1999

• Finalist, Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children
• Canadian Children’s Book Centre Choice, 1999

Poetry: Selected Anthologies

A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry
Edited by Ann Hostetler, University of Iowa Press, USA, 2003

Where the Words Come From: Canadian Poets in Conversation Edited by Tim Bowling Nightwood Editions, 2002

Inside Poetry Second Edition,
Edited by Richard Davies and Jerry Wowk, Harcourt, 2002

Meltwater: Fiction and Poetry from The Banff Centre for the Arts Banff Centre Press, 1998

Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets Edited by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane, Harbour Publishing, 1995

Fiction: Young Adult

The Secret Wish of Nannerl Mozart Second Story Press, 1996
Excerpt from Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach in When I was a Child: Stories for Grownups and Children
Oberon, 2003.

• Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Adults, Shortlist, 1996
• Canadian Children's Book Centre Choice, 1996
• Mr. Christie's Book Award for Best Children's Book (Age 8-11 Category), Shortlist, 1997
• Mr. Christie's Book Award for Best Children's Book (Age 8-11 Category), Shortlist, 1997
• B.C. Red Cedar Awards, Shortlist, 1998-1999

Drama

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Mainstage Season,
Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company, St. John's, 2000,
Septext Productions at the Firehall Arts Centre,
Vancouver Fringe Festival, 1998

• Selected as "Pick of the Fringe" at 1998 Vancouver Fringe Festival
• Awarded 1998 Travel Grant by The Canada Council for the Arts
• Theatre B.C.'s 1998 National Playwriting Competition,
  Honourable Mention
  

Short Fiction and Non-fiction: Chapbook

Opal's Sun: Stories and Essays from Home
Pinchpenny Press, USA, 1987

Selected poems in literary journals include Books in Canada,
Notre Dame Review (USA), The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Poetry Ireland Review (UK), Event, Poetry Canada Review,
Prairie Fire Grain, Contemporary Verse 2, NeWest Review, The Antigonish Review, and Rhubarb.

Puttanesca, short fiction, published in PRISM international, 38:1 Fall 1999

Selected non-fiction published in The Elkhart Truth (USA), Festival Quarterly (USA), Matrix, Issue #55, Winter 2000
and Rhubarb,V1, N4, Fall 1999.
Complete list of non-fiction publications available upon request.

The poems, Busking, and For Peter, My Cousin appeared on
B.C. Transit as part of the Poetry in Transit project.

Book reviews and interviews published in Books in Canada,
The Georgia Straight and Rhubarb.