
Welcome!


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, is now available from your local indie bookstore, or direct from Frontenac House Press!
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My debut novel, Skin Hunger, will be out in spring 2024. Pre-order now!
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"