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Candas Jane Dorsey

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Candas Jane Dorsey
Candas Jane Dorsey giving a lecture in Montreal in 2006
Born (1952-11-16) November 16, 1952 (age 73)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Writing career
Notable awards
Websitecandasjanedorsey.ca

Candas Jane Dorsey (born November 16, 1952, in Edmonton)[1][2] is a Canadian poet and science fiction novelist who resides in her hometown of Edmonton, Alberta. She was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association Hall of Fame in 2018.[3]

Dorsey became a writer from an early age and works across genre boundaries, writing poetry, fiction, mainstream and speculative, short and long form, arts journalism and arts advocacy. Dorsey has also written television and stage scripts, magazine and newspaper articles, and reviews. In 1989, Machine Sex and Other Stories was a finalist for the Aurora Award for Best Novel.[4] Her later novel, Black Wine, won the award in 1998;[5] it also won the 1997 Otherwise Award and the 1997 Crawford Award.[6] In 1994, she edited one issue of Prairie Fire magazine, along with With G.N. Louise Jonasson, that focused on Canadian speculative fiction. Dorsey was editor-in-chief of The Books Collective (River, Slipstream and Tesseract Books) from 1992 through 2005.[7]

Dorsey currently[when?] teaches and holds workshops and readings. She has served on the executive board of the Writers Guild of Alberta and is a founder of SF Canada.[8]

Awards

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Locus included Ice and Other Stories on their list of the best short story collections of 2018.[9]

Awards for Dorsey's work
Year Work Award Result Ref.
1989 Machine Sex and Other Stories Aurora Award for Best Novel Finalist [4]
1997 Black Wine Otherwise Award Winner
1997 Black Wine Crawford Award Winner [6]
1998 Black Wine Aurora Award for Best Novel Winner [5]
2022 Food of My People Aurora Award for Best Related Work Finalist [10]

Publications

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Novels

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  • Results of the Ring Toss (1976)
  • Hardwired Angel (1987)
  • Leaving Marks (1992)
  • Black Wine (1997)[11]
  • A Paradigm of Earth (2001)[12]
  • The Story of My Life Ongoing by CS Cobb (2022)
  • At the Freak Show (2026)

Epitome Apartments series

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  • The Adventures of Isabel: A Postmodern Mystery, By the Numbers (2020)[13]
  • What's the Matter with Mary Jane? (2021)[14]
  • He Wasn’t There Again Today (2023)[15]

Collections

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  • Machine Sex and Other Stories (1988)
  • Vanilla and Other Stories (2000)
  • Ice & Other Stories (2018)[16]

Anthologies

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  • Tesseracts 3 with Gerry Truscott (1990)
  • Tesseracts 8 with John Clute (1999)
  • Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction with Judy McCrosky (2002)
  • Food of My People with Ursula Pflug (2021)

References

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  1. ↑ "Candas Jane Dorsey: Saving the World". Locus Magazine. August 2000. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Candas Jane Dorsey". The Writers' Union of Canada. Archived from the original on April 17, 2026. Retrieved August 27, 2026.
  3. ↑ locusmag (October 8, 2018). "2018 Aurora Awards Winners". Locus. Archived from the original on December 2, 2024. Retrieved August 27, 2026.
  4. 1 2 "1989 Aurora Awards". sfadb.com. Archived from the original on January 17, 2026. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
  5. 1 2 "1998 Aurora Awards". sfadb.com. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
  6. 1 2 "Past Winners of the Crawford Award". iaftfita.wildapricot.org. Archived from the original on September 9, 2024. Retrieved August 27, 2026. Retrieved 2026-05-21.
  7. ↑ Gaylaxicon 2006. "Additional Author Guest". Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved March 22, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, ed. (2006). Year's Best Fantasy 6. Tachyon Publications. ISBN 1-892391-37-6.
  9. ↑ "2018 Locus Recommended Reading List". Locus. February 1, 2019. Archived from the original on September 27, 2025. Retrieved August 27, 2026.
  10. ↑ "2022 Aurora Awards Winners". Locus. August 15, 2022. Archived from the original on December 8, 2024. Retrieved August 27, 2026.
  11. ↑ "Black Wine by Candas Jane Dorsey". Publishers Weekly. December 30, 1996. Retrieved August 27, 2026.
  12. ↑ "A PARADIGM OF EARTH by Candas Jane Dorsey". Publishers Weekly. September 17, 2001. Retrieved August 27, 2026.
  13. ↑ "The Adventures of Isabel: An Epitome Apartments Mystery by Candas Jane Dorsey". Publishers Weekly. August 7, 2020. Retrieved August 27, 2026.
  14. ↑ "What's the Matter with Mary Jane? An Epitome Apartments Mystery by Candas Jane Dorsey". Publishers Weekly. August 5, 2021. Archived from the original on October 26, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2026.
  15. ↑ "He Wasn't There Again Today: An Epitome Apartments Mystery by Candas Jane Dorsey". Publishers Weekly. August 31, 2023. Retrieved August 27, 2026.
  16. ↑ Brown, Eric (August 10, 2018). "The best recent science fiction – reviews roundup". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved August 27, 2026.
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