About

author photo by Michael Galan

Born and raised in London, Ontario, Jocelyn graduated from York University and has studied writing at St. Lawrence College and the Humber School for Writers. She always wanted to be a writer, and won her first award at age nine, for poems entered in the local Hobby Fair.

Besides novels and stories for teens, she has published stories for adults and writes women’s fiction as Elizabeth Sage.

Her YA books Getting a Life and Seraphina’s Circle have been translated into Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and German.

Jocelyn now lives in Toronto and on Vancouver Island.photo by Michael Galan***photo by Michael Galanphoto by Michael Gan***********Re

Read an interview with Jocelyn: http://youthconnect.ca/htdocs/english/play/stories/jocelyn.asp

Honours for books

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Honours for stories

* Winner of the Surrey International Writers’ Conference  2011 Writing for Young People Award

* Semi-finalist for the 2011 John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award

* Runner-up, 2010 John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award

* Two YA stories shortlisted, 2010 Surrey International Writing Contest for Young People Award

* Finalist, The Toronto Star’s 2009 Short Story Contest

* Second place, Nanaimo Arts Council Short Fiction Contest, 2009

* Winner, Lawrence House Centre for the Arts 3rd annual Short Story
Competition, 2004

* Second place, Nanaimo Arts Council Short Fiction Contest, 2006

* Runner-up, QWF magazine’s 10th Anniversary Competition, 2004

* Finalist CBC Literary Awards 2001

* Second place, Kingston Literary Awards 2001

* Shared first place, Kingston Literary Awards 2000

* Finalist, Writers’Union of Canada Short Prose Competition, 1999

* Runner-up, The Toronto Star’s 1997 Short Story Contest

* Honourable mention, Paragraph magazine’s 1995 Short Fiction Contest

* Finalist, CBC Literary Awards, 1992