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Alison Clarke
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lison Clarke is an Edmonton author and Canada’s national treasure. She also enjoys painting and drawing. She is a creative writing tutor and a spoken word artist hosting a writing course, several times a year. Alison is the author of The Sisterhood trilogy, a young adult fantasy novel about Oppie, a sorceress’ daughter, and her best friend, Aurie, who is a dragon, and the journey they go on to save the universe. The Sisterhood is Book One of The Sisterhood Series, for which Alison won the award 2016 Writer Of The Year by Diversity magazine. The second book in the series is Racine which continues the magical odyssey. In this book, Racine, the 19 year old woman protagonist goes on a fantastical odyssey from the Library of Congress. She discovers her mystical beginnings and the power of the written word. Book Three of The Sisterhood Series, Circle was
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released with great reviews. Alison believes that the stories we tell ourselves are important. Alison enjoys writing stories with strong female protagonists. She is fascinated by Greek, Ghanian and Celtic mythology. The Sisterhood Trilogy is about hope, possibility, and empowered female characters that come together as a collective force to save the universe. Her novels also feature characters of colour, lacking in the genre of fantasy. The inspiration behind her books would be reading, travelling, and walking outdoors, experiencing nature to its fullest. Her books inspire and encourage people on their journeys and many of her readers have told her so. All of her stories are important, as they all have important themes that can inspire and encourage people. For Alison, the power and magic of reading, libraries, would be the life narratives that played out in her
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book, Circle. Alison insists that the publishing journey was not easy, but entering a graduate school program opened up the doors, and led to the publisher of The Sisterhood trilogy. Her favourite authors of all time are Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, J.K. Rowling, J.RR. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, the Bronte Sisters. She loves reading. She has just read Dreams From My Father, by former President Barack Obama. At the moment, Alison is working on a poetry collection about Phillis Wheatley that will be published by the University Of Calgary press. She is certain that there will not be a sequel to Circle. Her books are at Audrey’s, and Chapters in St. Albert in Edmonton.
