Michelle Barker’s most recent publication is Immersion and Emotion: The Two Pillars of Storytelling, co-authored with David Griffin Brown (2023). Her novel My Long List of Impossible Things (2020) is published by Annick Press and is a Junior Library Guild gold standard selection. Her previous novel, The House of One Thousand Eyes (2018, Annick Press) won numerous awards, including the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award, and was named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. She is also the author of A Year of Borrowed Men, finalist for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. Her poetry, short fiction and non-fiction have been published in literary reviews around the world. Michelle is represented by Hilary McMahon (Westwood Creative Artists) and works as a senior editor with The Darling Axe. She holds an MFA in creative writing from UBC and has spoken and taught at schools and writing conferences in both Canada and the U.S.
Assorted:
World War Two and the Pandemic
East Germany, a Real-Life Dystopia
A Year of Borrowed Men: my mother's experience growing up in Germany during WW2
Assorted:
- What Teens Want From YA Literature…And How We Can Give it to Them (with David Brown)
- Beyond Good Enough: Revising Scene by Scene (with David Brown)
- Query Quest: The Hunt for Representation (with David Brown)
- Setting the Stage (with David Brown)
- Murder Your Darlings: A Webinar about Editing (with David Brown)
- Using Short Forms to Learn How to Write a Novel
- Rookie Mistakes
- What She Said: Writing Effective Dialogue
- Imagery: Where Poetry and Prose Intersect
- From Research to Fiction
- Beginnings, Middles, and Ends: The Elements of Structure
- What If? A Workshop on Writing Fantasy
- Poetry for the terrified
Assorted:
World War Two and the Pandemic
East Germany, a Real-Life Dystopia
A Year of Borrowed Men: my mother's experience growing up in Germany during WW2
