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Welcome!

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To the web page of me, Frances Boyle. I'm an award-winning writer of poetry and fiction based in Ottawa, Ontario.

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My newest poetry collection, Openwork and Limestone, published in late 2022 is available from your local indie bookstore, or direct from Frontenac House Press.

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Seeking Shade, my 2020 short story collection, from The Porcupines Quill won the Miramichi Reader Very Best! Award, and was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award and the ReLit Award.

 

My second poetry collection, This White Nest, from Quattro Books came out late in 2019. 

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My novella, Tower, from Fish Gotta Swim Editions, was published in 2018.

 

All of my books have received some (very positive) reviews and appeared on lists of favourites - see the Media page.

 

I've also published another full-length collection of poetry, as well as several chapbooks and many poems and stories in magazines and anthologies. 

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" We shall not cease from exploration

  And the end of all our exploring 

  Will be to arrive where we started

  And know the place for the first time. "

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            T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"  

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