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Nicole Dixon’s story “High-Water Mark” was published in the Journey Prize Stories 19. In 2005 she won the Writers’ Trust of Canada Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award and was short-listed for a CBC Literary Award. Nicole holds a Master of Arts in creative writing and English from the University of Windsor and was featured on the cover of The New Quarterly. She just completed her MLIS at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
PUBLICATIONS
“The Other F-Word: The Disappearance of Feminism from our Fiction.” Canadian Notes and Queries. 80 (Fall 2010). 9-17.
“You Wouldn’t Recognize Me.” The New Quarterly. 113 (Winter 2010): 23-31.
“Happy Meat.” Grain. 36.2 (Fall/Early Winter/Mid Winter 2009): 38-51.
“Diving for Pearls.” The Fiddlehead. 237 (Autumn 2008): 47-54.
“High-Water Mark.” The Journey Prize Stories 19: The Best of Canada’s New Writers. (October 2007): 124-133.
“For The Off: A Statement of Poetics.” The New Quarterly. 100 (Autumn 2006): 80-90.
“High-Water Mark.” The New Quarterly. 98 (Spring 2006): 114-119.
“Mona Says Fire Fire Fire.” The New Quarterly. 98 (Spring 2006): 120-131.
“I wear the kilt expecting this.” The Windsor Review. 37.1 (Spring 2004): 33.
“I suck the juice gone; summer on my tongue.” The Windsor Review. 37.1 (Spring 2004): 34.
“Crows.” the Harpweaver. 8 (Winter 2001): 25.
AWARDS/GRANTS
Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize 19 (2007)
Nova Scotia Culture Division Grants to Individuals (2007)
•Creation Grant
Nova Scotia Culture Division Grants to Individuals (2006)
•Professional Development Grant
Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild St. Peter’s Abbey Writers’ Colony/Retreat (Summer 2006)
CBC Literary Awards Shortlist (2006)
•placed in top 30 out of 1074 entries
Writers’ Trust of Canada Bronwen Wallace Award for Short Fiction (2005)
Ontario Arts Council Works-In-Progress Grant (July 2004)
About “High-Water Mark,” the Bronwen Wallace jury said, “This complex story is told by fully individuated characters who speak clearly in their own voices. The vivid sense of place arises from the events, the dialogue, and the careful selection and succinct treatment of telling details. The author's command of her craft inspires the reader's confidence: we are in good hands; we will be led to a new place, a new insight into the human condition.”
Caroline Adderson, juror for The Journey Prize 19, said, “And I loved Nicole Dixon’s “High-Water Mark” for how the smart-ass narrator single-handedly saves the story from melodrama with the power of her voice. Cancer, dead dads and dead babies--and I laughed? That’s some feat.”
Nicole Dixon
Nicole’s first book, High-Water Mark, a collection of short stories, will be published by The Porcupine’s Quill in Spring 2012!
