Winning Chance: Stories

Sixteen new stories from Katherine Koller, some previously published in Grain, Room, Epiphany and Prairie Journal, and by Loft 112, are collected in this book, published by Enfield & Wizenty at Great...

How to Write from Place

Join writer Katherine Koller for a talk and mini-workshop on how where we are shapes us, holds a millennia of stories, and invites us to write our own (45 min). Edmonton Public Library: HOW TO Festival, Nov...

The Last Edmonton Coal Mine: Whitemu...

Whitemud Creek Coal Mine tipple, Edmonton, 1969. The mine operated from 1952 to 1970 in Rainbow Valley. Photo by Isabel Hill, City of Edmonton Archives ET-11-134. In her third historical piece for Edmonton...

Winning Chance wins Exporting Albert...

Katherine Koller’s story collection, Winning Chance, is the 2020 recipient of the Exporting Alberta Award from the Canadian Authors Association, Alberta branch. Winning Chance is published by Enfield...

Winning Chance, “A Joy of Shor...

“And each story following was filled with a humanness that is rare; for me to discover a book of stories with equal care given to creating short works of words that are so finely created with threads...

Online Reading from Winning Chance

Katherine Koller will be reading an excerpt of “The Care & Feeding of Small Birds” from her book of short stories, Winning Chance on August 6 at 7 pm. Her host and interviewer is Dorothy...

Winning Chance, High Plains Book Awa...

Winning Chance by Katherine Koller, along with Not a Thing to Comfort You by Emily Wortman-Wunder (Colorado) and This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. by Jennifer Wortman (Colorado) were Finalists in the...

Winning Chance Review, Alberta Views

https://albertaviews.ca/winning-chance/ “The ingredients for near-transcendent goodness, Winning Chance urges us to believe, all exist in life as we know it.” –Kate...

Riverkeeper, Jane Chambers Playwriti...

THE JANE CHAMBERS AWARD for Excellence in Feminist Playwriting recognizes new plays and performance texts created by women writers which present a feminist perspective and that provide significant...

“The Winter Police” on Y...

See Katherine Koller read a section from her story “The Winter Police” on YABS TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_9gWbUiHlE The full story can be found at Great Plains Publishing,...

Queenie’s Castle

Queenie’s Castle by Katherine Koller, a play about a nurse and her reluctant patient, is part of Women at Play(s), Toronto edition, a festival of six one-act plays by female playwrights, directed by...

CAA Writer in Residence

For a second term, until the end of May 2020, Katherine Koller is W-I-R for the Canadian Authors Association Edmonton. Alberta authors, contact her at katherinekoller@canauthorsalberta.ca for consultations on...

Hope Soup Podcast

Hope Soup by Katherine Koller, recorded at the 2019 Edmonton Fringe Festival, is available as the second in a series of podcasts from Edmonton Script Salon Podcasts, featuring the voices of Erin Pettifor,...

Blog: Can we talk?

Read Katherine Koller’s blogpost for Whistler Writers’ Festival, Oct 17-20, 2019, about her Dialogue workshop for writers working in all forms on Saturday, Oct 19. She’ll also be giving this...

Reading is an Art Form

Follow this link to Katherine Koller’s blogpost for the Edmonton Public Library about reading, “Reading is an Art Form.” Her other blogpost for EPL during her term as Capital City Press...

EPL Featured Writer

Katherine Koller is an Edmonton Public Library Featured Writer from August to October 2019. See her book lists on short stories and favourite titles of the last 16 years. Her first talk for the library is at...