SHARON OVEREND’s fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry has appeared in Canadian, American and UK literary journals and anthologies. In 2010, she won the Random House Student Award from University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies, and in 2018 won the Rotary Club (Stratford Ontario Writers’ Festival) Short Story contest. In 2014, she was nominated for a Journey Prize, the celebrated Canadian literary prize for short stories.

Short Stories:

Rowsell, Lori Jean Rowsell

On September 17, 2010February 7, 2023 By Sara WalkerIn Fiction, Short story writer, Writer Local to Kawartha LakesLeave a comment

Lori Jean Rowsell is a multi-genre author and a member of the CSFFA. Her short stories have appeared in two Kawartha Lakes Stories anthologies. Her debut Young Adult novel, No Other Love, was published in early 2022. Professionally, she is a nurse who specializes in geriatric care and infection control. Lori Jean lives with her family and their handsome dog in the City of Kawartha Lakes. For more: www.lorijeanrowsell.com

Books:

No Other Love, 2022

Kawartha Lakes Stories, volume 1

Kawartha Lakes Stories, volume 2

Matters of Time, an anthology

Cathy Hamill-Hill

On September 17, 2010February 7, 2023 By Sara WalkerIn Fiction, Humour, Non-Fiction, Writer Local to Kawartha LakesLeave a comment

Cathy Hamill-Hill writes for a number of publications as well as short stories. Her writing works span from agriculture, municipal politics, and community events.

Works:

Voice of the Farmer

Kawartha Lakes Stories, volume 1

Tiffany Short

On September 17, 2010February 7, 2023 By Sara WalkerIn Fiction, Short story writer, Writer Local to Kawartha LakesLeave a comment

Tiffany Short is a short story writer in Kawartha Lakes.

Works:

Kawartha Lakes Stories, volume 1

David R. Hersey

On September 15, 2010February 7, 2023 By Sara WalkerIn Fiction, Writer Local to Kawartha LakesLeave a comment

Author of “Cottage Wars,” Hersey lives near Coboconk during cottage season.

Available for borrowing from Kawartha Lakes Public Library.

Monroe Scott

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Editor of the Lindsay Daily Post, resided near Rosedale.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/munscott/

Life and death of Munroe Scott

Gabrielle Wills

On September 15, 2010July 22, 2017 By Sara WalkerIn Fiction, Writer Local to Kawartha LakesLeave a comment

Although no longer residing in Kawartha Lakes, Gabrielle Wills based the fictional town in her novel, A Place to Call Home, on Lindsay.

Other Works:

The Summer Before the Storm

Elusive Dawn

Under the Moon

Moon Hall

Linwood Barclay

On September 15, 2010July 24, 2017 By Sara WalkerIn Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Writer Local to Kawartha LakesLeave a comment

During his teen years, author Linwood Barclay lived at Green Acres Trailer Park in Bobcaygeon. He writes about the experience in his memoir, Last Resort.