Kerrie Penney
EMOTIONAL ALCHEMIST
Kerrie is a writer based in western Canada. Her poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction explore themes of inheritance and transition. She is the city-raised child of homesteaders, and her work tugs at those prairie roots. Kerrie is a collector of cookbooks and secrets. She spent her early career in radio and television and later founded a small but mighty communications company, where she learned to transform ideas into action. She has received a number of awards for her work.
“Honest, surprising and imaginative, Kerrie’s work unlocks the magic of the everyday.”
RECENT WORKS
The New Quarterly
Finalist 2023 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse
Three Feelings Walk into a Bar
The New Quarterly
Writing Spaces
My Writing Space
This Might Help audio poetry
Short Édition: short story dispenser
Funny Pearls
2020 Competition Winner
Buffalo Glue
The Globe and Mail
AWARDS
Film awards include: AMPIA: Alberta Motion Pictures Industry Awards, AVA Digital, Summit, and an Hermes Creative Award. She is a former Banff Television Fellow and an alumna of the Literary Arts Program at the Banff Centre. Her short story Buffalo Glue won the Funny Pearls 2020 Fiction Prize.