About Winona
Winona Kent is an award-winning author whose writing breakthrough came many years ago when she won First Prize in the Flare Magazine Fiction Contest with her short story about an all-night radio newsman, Tower of Power.
Her short story Dietrich's Ash was an Okanagan Short Fiction Award winner and was published in Canadian Author & Bookman, anthologized in Pure Fiction (Fitzhenry & Whiteside) and broadcast on the CBC Radio program Ambience.
Her
short story Creatures
from Greek
Mythology was a Second Prize
Winner and WQ Editors Prize and was
published in Cross-Canada Writers
Quarterly.
Her
spy novel
Skywatcher
was a finalist in the Seal Books First Novel Competition,
and was published in 1989 by Seal in Canada, and Bantam in the US. The
sequel, The
Cilla Rose Affair, was first
published in 2001 and
was reprinted as an e-book in 2011.
Her third novel, Cold
Play, which takes place
aboard a
cruise ship in Alaska, was published in 2012.
Winona's fourth novel, Persistence
of Memory, was published by
Fable Press
as an e-book and trade paperback in September 2013, and is the first in
her gentle romantic time-travel series
featuring
Charlie Duran and her 19th century companion, Shaun Deeley.
All four of the above novels were re-printed by New York's Diversion Books on July 7, 2015 and are currently available as ebooks and trade paperbacks.
The second novel in Winona's time-travel series, In Loving Memory, was published by Diversion Books on 26 July 2016. This book also contains the bonus short story, Easy When You Know How. In Loving Memory won Honourable Mention in the London Book Festival's 2017 Awards.
Charlie and Mr. Deeley's third time-travelling adventure, Marianne's Memory, was published on March 12, 2018.
Winona's short story, Perhaps an Angel, is also now available on Amazon Kindle. Chronologically, this story takes place between Persistence of Memory and In Loving Memory.
Her new novella Disturbing the Peace - a Jason Davey mystery - was published December 10, 2017.
Winona has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and is a graduate of Vancouver Film School's program in Writing for Screen, TV and New Media.
She lives in the Vancouver area and works at the University of British Columbia as a Graduate Program Assistant.
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