Always Brave, Sometimes Kind
Warm and Gritty, Well-Defined and Utterly Complicated.
Winner of the 2021 Indie Project Award for Alberta.
Winner of the 2021 Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction.
Shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Award for Novel.
Author, Instructor, Manuscript Consultant
Katie Bickell
Katie Bickell emigrated from England to northern Alberta in 1990. Her first novel, Always Brave, Sometimes Kind, was released in 2020. Since then, she has professionally written two ghostwritten memoirs, Vertical Lift: A Help-Pilot’s Mission for Freedom, Family, and Success (2022) and Life in Repair: One Mechanic’s Path to Prosperity and Purpose (2024). She is currently penning her sophomore novel, Alskling.
Katie’s work has received several awards, including the Alberta Literary Award’s 2020 Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, the Alberta Literary Award’s Howard O’Hagan for Short Story, The WGA’s Emerging Writer Award, The Alberta Views Fiction Prize, The Voices of Motherhood Essay Contest, two Alberta Foundation of the Arts Individual Artists Grants, and a Canadian Council of the Arts Grant. In 2024, Katie served as Metro Edmonton Federation of Library’s Regional Writer in Residence for the communities of Strathcona County and St. Albert.
Katie lives in Sherwood Park, Alberta, with her husband and daughters.
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