Photo Credit:
Photo credit
Monique de St-Croix
Lori Hahnel
BIO
Biography

Lori Hahnel's new novel, Flicker, is forthcoming from the University of Calgary Press Brave & Brilliant Series on Sept. 15, 2023. Lori is the author of two previous novels, Love Minus Zero and After You’ve Gone, and two story collections, Nothing Sacred and Vermin: Stories (Enfield & Wizenty 2020). Vermin won the 2022 Short Story Collection Award at the Alberta Literary Awards, and was a finalist for a High Plains Award, the CAA Fred Kerner Award and the Saskatchewan Foundation for the Arts Glengarry Book Award. Her credits include CBC Radio, The Fiddlehead, Joyland and The Saturday Evening Post. Lori was Author-in-Residence at Calgary Public Library in 2020, and a mentor at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity's Summer Writers Retreat in 2018.

ADDRESS
City: Calgary, Province/Territory: Alberta
EMAIL
GENRE
Fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Flicker
Publisher
University of Calgary Press Brave & Brilliant Series
Year
2023
Title
Vermin: Stories
Publisher
Enfield & Wizenty / Great Plains
Year
2020
Title
After You've Gone
Publisher
Thistledown Press
Year
2014
Title
Nothing Sacred
Publisher
Thistledown Press
Year
2009
Title
Love Minus Zero
Publisher
Oberon Press
Year
2008
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Alberta Literary Award (Short Story Collection Award), winner
Publication
Vermin: Stories
Year
2022
Name
Glengarry Book Award, shortlisted
Publication
Vermin: Stories
Year
2021
Name
High Plains Book Award, shortlisted
Publication
Vermin: Stories
Year
2021
Name
CAA Fred Kerner Award, shortlisted
Publication
Vermin: Stories
Year
2021
Name
Georges Bugnet Award (Alberta Literary Awards), finalist
Publication
Nothing Sacred
Year
2010
Name
CAA Exporting Alberta Award, Honorable Mention
Publication
Nothing Sacred
Year
2010
Name
Calgary Public Library Foundation Literary Award, longlisted
Publication
Love Minus Zero
Year
2009
Name
Tom Howard / John H. Reid Short Story Contest, Highly Commended
Publication
"We Had Faces Then"
Year
2007
Name
Million Writers Award, Notable Story of 2006
Publication
"This is a Test", The Menda City Review
Year
2006
Name
PRISM International Short Fiction Contest, shortlisted
Publication
"Blue Lake"
Year
2005
Name
CBC Radio’s Alberta Anthology Competition, winner
Publication
"The Pass"
Year
2005
Name
FreeFall Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention
Publication
"Nothing Sacred"
Year
2003
Name
Alice Munro Festival of Writing Contest, second place
Publication
"We Had Faces Then"
Year
2005
LINKS
Links
www.lorihahnel.ca
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Programs & Interests
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