Cassie Stocks (born 1966) is a Canadian writer, who won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 2013 for her debut novel, Dance, Gladys, Dance.[1]
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, 1966,[2] Stocks is currently based in Eston, Saskatchewan.[3] In addition to her writing, she worked at the town's Co-op store.[4] She worked at a steel plant when she was first accepted to a writing workshop at the Banff Centre in 2002, and subsequently left that job to study professional writing at Grant MacEwan University.[3]
Works
- Dance, Gladys, Dance (2012, NeWest Press. ISBN 978-1-897126-76-9.)
References
- ↑ "Cassie Stocks wins Stephen Leacock Award". CBC Arts, April 25, 2013.
- ↑ Stocks, Cassie. "Dance, Gladys, dance". Toronto Public Library. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- 1 2 "Eston author Cassie Stocks wins Leacock Medal" Archived June 10, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Regina Leader-Post, June 7, 2013.
- ↑ "Cassie Stocks’s Leacock win cause for celebration in Eston, Sask.". Edmonton Journal, May 2, 2013.
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