![]() ![]() ![]() Books she has edited have won the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for Fiction, and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and have twice been finalists for Canada Reads. As the inaugural editor of Calgary’s Freehand Books, she won the Lois Hole Award for Editorial Excellence from the Book Publishers Association of Alberta subsequently, she served as Senior Editor of Canadian Fiction for House of Anansi Press. ![]() Melanie has taught creative writing at Dalhousie University, the University of Alberta, and at workshops across Canada, and has been a writing mentor with Diaspora Dialogues and the Ontario Arts Council. She is currently finishing a novel that draws on her experiences as an editor, and is writing her second collection of short stories. Her historical novel-in-verse for young adults, The Apprentice’s Masterpiece, was a Canadian Library Association Honour Book, a gold medalist at the Independent Publisher Book Awards, and a White Raven selection for the International Youth Library in Munich. Her debut collection of stories, Confidence, was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award and selected as a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. Melanie Little is an award-winning author and editor of fiction and non-fiction. ![]()
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