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Sara Cassidy’s non-fiction, fiction and poetry has won numerous awards, including a National Magazine Award for non-fiction, the Atlantic Writing Competition for poetry, and a BC Book Prize for children's writing. Her 23 children's books have been nominated for the City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize, Governor General's Literary Award, and other honours.
Sara has degrees in journalism, English and philosophy. She has taught at the University of Victoria, Camosun College and Royal Roads University, and loves presenting in schools. She works in communications for the BC Ministry of Health and as an editor for private clients and on contract for Orca Books. Sara has been a newspaper reporter, treeplanter in five Canadian provinces, and a human rights witness in Guatemala. |
Sara lives in sxʷeŋ'xʷəŋ taŋ'exw (James Bay), on the edge of the Salish Sea, where lək̓ʷəŋən People, today the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations, have fished and gathered since time immemorial. She also spends as much time as possible in Burgundy, France.
For freelance assignments, school visits, teaching materials, readings, workshops, editing, communications consulting and collaborations, send her an email.
For freelance assignments, school visits, teaching materials, readings, workshops, editing, communications consulting and collaborations, send her an email.
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- A Great Kids' Book is "a Kind of Graffiti": Sara Cassidy on Why Wonder, Not Instruction, is at the Centre of Her Writing. Interview, Open Book. March 17, 2022. Read here
- Q & A with Deborah Kalb. July 18, 2022. Read here
- Q & A with Deborah Kalb. November 8, 2019. Read here
- Real Magic. Sara Cassidy’s four-of-a-kind. UVic Torch alumni magazine. Fall 2019. Read here
- 16 Canadian authors recommend books for Family Literacy Day - Jon Arno Lawson recommends A Boy Named Queen. May 17, 2017. CBC.ca Read here
- Q & A with Union author Sara Cassidy. Orca Books blog. Read here
- Canlit for Little Canadians - A Boy Named Queen. August 2016. Read here
- Shy Kids Will Identify - A Boy Named Queen. Vancouver Sun. October 28, 2016. Read here
- In Search of Alternative Realities - Skylark. Vancouver Sun, July 31, 2014. Read here
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- Toronto International Festival of Authors, Panelist and Presenter
- Victoria Festival of Authors, Moderator and Reader
- Denman Island Writers Festival, Writer in the School
- Vancouver Writers Fest, Presenter
- Planet Earth Poetry, Reader
- Judge: So You Think You Can Write (Times Colonist); City of Victoria Book Prize; Claremont Review Fiction Award; Malahat Poetry Prize; BC Arts Council
Teaching
- University of Victoria, Writing for Children and Teens, Sessional
- Royal Roads University, Communications, Sessional
- Camosun College, Creative Writing, Publishing, Sessional
- Victoria School of Writing, Workshop Leader
