Michelle Willms, writer
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Creative Nonfiction​​
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Club Plum Literary Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2025
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Hippocampus Magazine, May/June Issue, 2020
*Thank you to my old friend, Mike, for allowing me to use personal parts of his life story in this essay.
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Short Fiction
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"Old Car"
This Side of the Divide: Stories of the American West Anthology (Baobab Press), 2019
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Black Dandy: Fiction For the Fearless, Issue 2, 2018​
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"The Safe Side of the Chain"
Scrivener Creative Review and Lieu Commun's Joint Bilingual Issue (by invitation), 2017
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"Uncle Léo of the North"
Scrivener Creative Review, Issue 42, 2017
*Thank you to the Abitibi/Wahgoshig First Nation people for allowing me to use their First Nation name in this story.
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"Slaw"
Scrivener Creative Review, Issue 41, 2016
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"Twenty, Four, and Seven"
Dance to Death (Sorrowland Press), 2008
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Poetry
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In/Words, Volume 12.1, 2012
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"Death to iPhone"
The Writers Block, Issue 3, 2009
*Published under pen name.
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"Nature's Heartbeat"
Beneath the Harvest Moon (National Library of Poetry), 1996
*Recipient of the Editor's Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry.
*Published under maiden name, Michelle Kretz.
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Cartoons, Comics, and Illustrations
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Please visit my Instagram account to see my work.
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About
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Michelle holds two degrees from McMaster University and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She is the 2021/2022 recipient of the Norman L. Rothstein Memorial Scholarship, awarded on the recommendation of the Department of Creative Writing to a student who has shown ability in writing poetry.
Michelle and her family live in Southern Ontario, Canada, as settlers on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Ojibway/Chippewa, and Haudenosaunee peoples.
