“Food is Love” and “Waterfall” online

Read new short plays by Katherine Koller,  “Food is Love” and “Waterfall” online at Prairie Journal.

Edmonton City as Museum Project

Two history stories by Katherine Koller are featured on the Edmonton City as Museum Project: “The Year of the Alaska Highway” and “McKernan’s Lost...

Genre Jumping workshop at Spruce Grove Public LIbrary

Join Katherine Koller for a workshop on how to find the container for your story. We’ll be genre jumping through poetry, nonfiction, fiction and drama. Lunch included. Free, but register at Spruce Grove Public Library, 780 962 4423. Sunday, October 1 from 10 am to 2 pm. An Alberta Culture Days...

Sunset Travel for Single Seniors in Room

A new story by Katherine Koller, about a woman’s transition from widowhood, Sunset Travel for Single Seniors, appears in Room, issue 40.3:...

Vote for Art Lessons!

The link to vote for Art Lessons  by Katherine Koller for the Alberta Readers’ Choice Award, sponsored by the Edmonton Public Library, and Capital City Press, is epl.ca/ARCAVote. One vote per person until August 15! The winner will be announced on September 15, 2017. Thanks for voting! . . . and the prize goes to Susanna Pfisterer, for 50% of Mountaineering is Uphill. Congrats,...

“The Care & Feeding of Small Birds” at Loft 112

Katherine Koller read her new short story “The Care & Feeding of Small Birds” at Calgary’s Loft 112 Long Lunch Quick Reads on June 16, 2017. The story is available in chapbook form from Loft 112  and tells the story of Cloudy, his bear winter and his birds.             Loft 112’s chapbooks are bound with one-of-a-kind covers. Here’s a sampling for “The Care & Feeding of...

Art Lessons Review in Room

Here’s a few excerpts from the review by Nadia Siu Van on Art Lessons : Koller’s novel takes a refreshing angle on how a young woman becomes an artist, mentored and encouraged by other women who teach her not only about art, but about life. The look that Cassie’s mother gives her children is likened to how Cassie feels when she looks at her own art. “It’s the look you give your creation.” Koller’s novel...

Art Lessons shortlisted for Alberta Readers’ Choice Award

Hear Katherine Koller read from Art Lessons with other finalists for the Alberta Readers’ Choice Award, Lauralyn Chow, Natasha Deen and Susanna Pfisterer, at the Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre on Saturday, May 20 at 11:30 a.m. The full schedule is here. Starting July 4, readers can vote for their favourite!     Pictured here are (L to R, Susanna Pfisterer, Todd Babiak, 2016 winner Laurel Mayne,...