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Books This Is Sadie, When You Were Small, When I was Small, Where You Came from, You Are One | ||
Lit wish list 2013 sara o leary
Sara O'Leary is a Canadian writer. She has published fiction, children's books, plays, and criticism. She is married to the poet and academic Daniel O’Leary and they have two sons. She holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from Concordia University in Montreal and an MFA with a specialization in Screenwriting from the Program in Theatre, Film and Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
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Children's Books
O'Leary is the author of The Henry Books, illustrated by Julie Morstad and published by Simply Read Books. This series of picture books have proven very popular and there are currently over 100,000 copies of When You Were Small in print. It won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award for 2007, and was also a CanWest Raise a Reader Beginning Reader Pick for that year. Where You Came From was a finalist for the ForeWord Magazine 2008 Book of the Year. The final of The Henry Books trilogy, When I Was Small, won the BC Book Prize for Best Children’s book in 2012. A new picture book collaboration with Julie Morstad, This Is Sadie, will be published by Tundra Books in 2015. She also blogs about children’s literature at 123oleary.
Plays
O'Leary's plays have been performed at numerous Fringe festivals and an early play, "The Dysfunctional Documentary," was nominated for a Sterling Drama Prize. Her play, "The Kitchen Sink," took first prize in Theatre BC’s National Playwriting Competition for 2003 and was subsequently produced by Frank Moher at Western Edge Theatre.
Literary Fiction and Criticism
A collection of postcard stories titled Wish You Were Here was published by Exile Editions (1994) and followed up by a collection of short fiction titled Comfort Me With Apples (Thistledown, 1998). O'Leary then went on to become a weekly literary columnist for both the Vancouver Sun and CBC Radio One. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as Mslexia Hobart, and The Walrus and her reviews appear in The Globe and Mail and The National Post. She is currently at work on a story collection titled The Art of Losing as well as a novel titled The Ghost in the House.