“The Evangelist” in Fire From the Heart

A poem by Katherine Koller, “The Evangelist,” is a winner in the Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize 2025. It will be published in October 2025 in Fire From the Heart, an annual chapbook published by Three Ocean Press featuring all the winners and finalists: “The Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize honours the vitality, vivacity, and outspoken presence of poet-activist Muriel Marjorie, who passed on in...

The Early Worm Club at River City Players

Katherine Koller’s one-act play, The Early Worm Club, is presented by the River City Players in Campbell River, B.C. as part of their One-Act Series, September 11-14, 2025. The Early Worm Club, directed by Annie Smith, is a comedy in the early morning woods between an avid bird watcher and a couple of late-night partygoers. By the light of early morning, Millie (Mary-Lynn Culbert), a newly obsessive...

“Cancer Dance” in Prairie Journal

A new poem by Katherine Koller, in memory of many friends, is published in The Prairie Journal issue...

Riverkeeper a winner in the Canadian Playwriting Competition

Riverkeeper, a full-length play by Katherine Koller, is a winner in the Canadian Playwriting Competition and receives a Mainstage New Play workshop and reading at Theatre BC’s Mainstage 2025, July 10 in Fort St. John, B.C., directed by Kathryn Shaw. About the play: To know her parents, River creates a narrative of fact, history, memory, and imagination by reading the river.  River discovers her past to shape...

Persuasion at Citadel Collider Festival

On June 21, 2025, at 2 pm, Katherine Koller’s adaptation of Persuasion, from the novel by Jane Austen, receives a staged reading at the Citadel Collider Festival in Edmonton after two years of development in the Citadel Playwrights Lab. Anne Elliot, 27, cannot forget her first attachment and ruptured engagement to Frederick Wentworth almost eight years before. Now a Captain in the English Navy, her beloved...

“Madonna of the Wilderness,” a monologue

A monologue by Katherine Koller, “Madonna of the Wilderness,” published in Going it Alone: Plays by Women for Solo Performers, edited by Kit Brennan, will be performed by Jelena Minshall at a cabaret of short works in Dear Diary: Surviving Our Twenties, on June 7 at 7 pm at Congress Coffee in Calgary. Produced by Wildflower Productions,...

“Buckshot” in The Fiddlehead

Short story “Buckshot” by Katherine Koller appears in the Spring 2025 issue of The Fiddlehead (No. 303). Here’s an excerpt: “Darcia continued to smile broadly without glancing in the bag, and Nell could see: Daria fully understood what had transpired the night before. This nonverbal communication between two women when a man stood by, completely unaware, was delicious. It was a first for...

“Sun Sneaks Through Leaves”

Recorded by Katherine Koller with accompanying interview at Happiness Reflected. Included in the third volume of Happiness Reflected for International Day of Happiness, March 20, 2025, compiled by the University of Alberta, Katherine Koller reads her poem in an interview by host Youngjin. Katherine also reads the poem at a reading in partnership with the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, the Sound Studies...