Alice Zorn
{{short description|Canadian writer}}
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Alice Zorn is a Canadian author. She has published three novels, Arrhythmia (2011), Five Roses (2016), and Colours in Her Hands (2024), as well as a short story collection, Ruins & Relics (2009).
Life and career
Zorn's first book Ruins & Relics, a collection of short fiction, was published in March 2009 by NeWest Press. It was later a finalist for the 2009 Quebec Writers' Federation's McAuslan First Book Prize.{{cite web|last=Clarkson |first=Annie |url=http://www.theshortreview.com/reviews/AliceZornRuinsandRelics.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822181345/http://www.theshortreview.com/reviews/AliceZornRuinsandRelics.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 22, 2011 |title=the short review: Ruins & Relics by Alice Zorn |publisher=the short review |date=December 2009 |accessdate=2012-01-21}}{{cite web|url=http://robmclennan.blogspot.ca/2009/08/12-or-20-questions-with-alice-zorn.html |title=Rob McLennan: 12 or 20 questions with Alice Zorn |date=16 August 2009 |accessdate=21 May 2012}}{{cite web|title=Quebec Writers' Federation|url=http://www.qwf.org/events/wol.html|accessdate=October 21, 2013}} She has also participated in the Banff Writing Studio and the Quebec Federation Mentorship Program. NeWest Press published Arrhythmia, Zorn's first novel, in May 2011.{{cite web|last=Zorn |first=Alice |url=http://www.newestpress.com/catalog/authors/zorn-alice.html |title=Zorn, Alice - NeWest Press |publisher=NeWest Press |date=June 2011 |accessdate=21 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224231139/http://www.newestpress.com/catalog/authors/zorn-alice.html |archivedate=24 February 2012 }}{{cite news |last1=Rothman |first1=Claire Holden |title=We'll Always Have Montreal |url=https://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/arrhythmia/ |access-date=6 November 2024 |publisher=Montreal Review of Books |date=1 July 2011}}{{cite web|first=Beverly |last=Akerman |url=http://www.thewinnipegreview.com/wp/2011/12/%E2%80%98arrhythmia%E2%80%99-by-alice-zorn/ |title='Arrhythmia' by Alice Zorn |publisher=The Winnipeg Review |date=December 20, 2011 |accessdate=2012-01-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309061132/http://www.thewinnipegreview.com/wp/2011/12/%E2%80%98arrhythmia%E2%80%99-by-alice-zorn/ |archivedate=March 9, 2012 }}{{cite web|url=http://quebecbooks.qwf.org/authors/view/708 |title=QWF Literary Database of Quebec English language authors - Alice Zorn |accessdate=21 May 2012}}
Zorn's second novel, Five Roses, was published by Dundurn Press in July 2016.{{cite web|title=Five Roses|url=https://www.dundurn.com/books/Five-Roses|publisher=Dundurn Press|accessdate=10 August 2016}}{{cite news|last1=Holden Rothman|first1=Claire|title=Alice Zorn: Making Her Pointe|url=http://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/v4/reviews/five-roses/|accessdate=10 August 2016|publisher=Montreal Review of Books|date=July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820052931/http://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/v4/reviews/five-roses/|archive-date=20 August 2016|url-status=dead}} It received positive reviews from literary critics.{{cite news |last1=Hansen |first1=Dana |title=Reviews: Five Roses |url=https://quillandquire.com/review/five-roses/ |access-date=6 November 2024 |publisher=Quill & Quire |date=September 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Greenberg |first1=Bev Sandell |title=Montreal novel brings cinematic narrative |url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/2016/08/20/montreal-novel-brings-cinematic-narrative |access-date=6 November 2024 |publisher=Winnipeg Free Press |date=20 August 2016}} Five Roses was later translated into French as Le rosier de la Pointe and was a finalist for the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award.{{cite web |title=Alice Zorn |url=https://freehand-books.com/book-author/alice-zorn/ |website=Freehand Books |access-date=28 October 2024}} Her third novel, Colours in Her Hands, was published by Freehand Books in September 2024.{{cite web |title=Book Launch for 'Colours in Her Hands' |url=https://writersunion.ca/community-board/book-launch-for-colours-in-her-hands |website=Writers' Union of Canada |access-date=28 October 2024}} She is scheduled to publish a second short story collection with NeWest Press in 2026.{{cite web |title=Alice Zorn |url=https://www.writersunion.ca/member/alice-zorn |website=Writers' Union of Canada |access-date=28 October 2024}}
Zorn has also published short stories in various literary journals across Canada, including The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Room of One's Own, and Grain.{{cite web |title=Alice Zorn's Reading Recommendation |url=https://thefiddlehead.ca/content/alice-zorns-reading-recommendation |website=The Fiddlehead |access-date=28 October 2024}} She has placed first twice in Prairie Fire magazine's Fiction Contest, in 2006 and 2011, and won the Manitoba Magazine Award for Fiction in 2013.
Originally from Hamilton, Ontario, Zorn resides in Montreal.
Bibliography
- 2009: Ruins & Relics
- 2011: Arrhythmia
- 2016: Five Roses
- 2024: Colours in Her Hands
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Category:Canadian women novelists
Category:Canadian women short story writers
Category:Writers from Hamilton, Ontario
Category:21st-century Canadian novelists
Category:21st-century Canadian short story writers
Category:21st-century Canadian women writers
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