The Tibetan Flute

A winner in the 10-minute play competition at Fergus Grand Theatre in Fergus, Ontario, “The Tibetan Flute” by Katherine Koller receives a staged reading on World Theatre Day, March 27, 2025. This play is about Song, a new taxi driver, and her first ride, Brandon, a young man looking for work in the city. With the power of music, a flute from Tibet, and breath, the two leave each other with...

Laura Lindsay, First Lady of Daytime TV in Alberta

This piece is written for ECAMP (Edmonton City as Museum Project), in their latest series about work. Laura Lindsay, mother of five (including Edmonton music star Tommy Banks), had her own daytime TV show for fourteen years. Also, view other Edmonton history pieces by Katherine Koller on ECAMP. In 1963, while Laura appeared on Channel 3, her son Tommy Banks had his own show, Somewhere There’s Music and...

“Sun Sneaks Through Leaves”

Published in Funicular, issue 16, Feb 2025 A poem by Katherine Koller in Funicular, placed in the section called “Don’t Give Yourself Bangs,” is “Sun Sneaks Through Leaves.” It recalls a moment when a photograph was taken of the speaker when she was a child, but focuses on how the realization that the photographer was the father of the child “filled [her] up like sun” later...

“Apple Bread” in Through the Portal: Tales from a Hopeful Dystopia

In Through the Portal: Tales from a Hopeful Dystopia, award-winning authors of speculative fiction Lynn Hutchinson Lee and Nina Munteanu present a collection that explores strange new terrains and startling social constructs, quiet morphing landscapes, dark and terrifying warnings, lush newly-told folk and fairy tales, featuring 32 writers from across the country. Katherine Koller’s story, “Apple...

“Dialogue for All” in Freelance

Katherine Koller’s craft piece on Dialogue for writers in all forms appeared in Freelance, the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild magazine, in Spring 2024. Based on her many workshops with writers on dialogue, playwright Katherine Koller, who also writes fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, provides tips from years of research and practice: “The best definition I know of dialogue is that it is...

“Scrabbled” in WestWord

In this confession of a word nerd, Katherine Koller attempts to understand her Scrabble habit in the summer 2024 issue of WestWord: “As addictions go, for a writer, perhaps mine is more generative than derailing. I learn new words, find new words, make interesting words. I play with words in an opposite-brain way than when I’m writing. It’s not like writing poetry, but I justify it as a kind of...

Persuasion

An adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen at Collider Festival Persuasion by Katherine Koller, an adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen, directed by Mieko Ouchi, will be read at the Collider Festival of New Work, co-presented by Script Salon on June 2, 2024 at the Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall. PERSUASION an adaptation of the novel by Jane Austenby Katherine Koller Anne Elliot at 27 is unable to forget her first...

Jane Austen and Me

Published in the January-March 2023 WestWord, this piece tells the story of Katherine Koller’s admiration of Jane Austen’s genius in general and, in particular, her first trip to a Jane Austen Society of North America conference in Victoria, 2022. Her musings about writing a stage adaptation have since been realized in the current Citadel Theatre’s Playwrights Lab. A reading of her adaptation of...