WINNIPEG - Award-winning Manitoba author Melissa Steele has been selected as the Winnipeg Public Library's Writer-in-Residence for 2010-2011. Steele's two published short fiction collections, Donut Shop Lovers (Turnstone Press, 1999), and Beautiful Girl Thumb (Turnstone, 2006) have earned her writing significant recognition to date.
After the first collection's release, Steele won the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Writer at the 1999 Manitoba Book Awards. Beautiful Girl Thumb won the 2007 Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and is currently in the running for the book all Manitobans should read for the Winnipeg Foundation's On the Same Page program. Steele will be signing copies of the nominated book at McNally Robinson Grant Park on Saturday, August 21 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m..
Steele's term as Writer-in-Residence starts October 1, 2010 and runs until April, 2011. During this time, she will give individual consultations and workshops to the public, as well as work on her own writing projects.
Steele has taught Creative Writing at the University of Manitoba, acted as a mentor with the Manitoba Writers' Guild and worked as a radio journalist.
For more information on the Winnipeg Public Library's Writer-in-Residence program, please visit: http://wpl.winnipeg.ca/library/contact/writer.asp
Turnstone Press is one of Manitoba's oldest literary presses, publishing the best since 1976.
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If you would like an interview with Melissa Steele or for more information, please contact:
Christine Mazur, Marketing and Submissions Coordinator at Turnstone Press, (204) 947-1555, or email here.
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