The Calgary Coven Homepage

"An oven?" Nanny Ogg had said. "What'd we want to join an oven for?"
She means a coven, Gytha," Granny Weatherwax had explained. "You know, like in the old days. A meeting."
"A knees up?" said Nanny Ogg hopefully.
"No dancing," Granny had warned. "I don't hold with dancing. Or singing or getting over-excited or all that messing around with ointments and similar."
"Does you good to get out," said Nanny happily.

(From WYRD SISTERS, by Terry Pratchett)

Alison, Marie and Rebecca (left to right) at the pre-launch party for The Black Chalice; Photo: Gale Comin.

Once upon a time we were three Calgary writers. Too small to be a union, too mellow to be a conspiracy, too collectively individualistic to be a writer's group, we would gather on an erratic basis as work, family and weather allowed to eat, drink and talk about life, the universe, writing, publishers and everything. Rebecca Bradley is an itinerant archaeologist who came to rest in Calgary after an "unintentional" (she claims) 18 year round the world tour, who writes fantasy and horror set in contemporary Hong Kong and ancient kingdoms real and imaginary. Marie Jakober is a University librarian who is working her way steadily through the genres in her explorations of power, who has it, how they keep it, and how they use it. Alison Sinclair works in the pharmaceutical industry and writes science fiction with a medical and bioscience bent. Rebecca and Marie still live in Calgary, while Alison decamped first to Ottawa and then to Victoria, BC.

Updates - May 2007

Marie's latest, The Halifax Connection, is just out from Random Century. Only Call Us Faithful won the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction for 2002, and was recently re-released in trade paperback. Sons of Liberty won the Georges Bugnet Award for Novel at the Alberta Book Awards in 2006.

Rebecca Bradley Lady in Gil (1996, US 2000) Scion's Lady (1997, US 2001) Lady Pain (1998, US 2001) Temutma (1999)

Marie Jakober The Mind Gods (1976) Sandinista (1985) A People in Arms (1987) High Kamilan (1993) The Black Chalice (2000, 2002) Only Call Us Faithful (2003) Even the Stones (2004) Sons of Liberty (2005) The Halifax Connection (2007)

Alison Sinclair Legacies (1995, US 1997) Blueheart (1996, US 1998) Cavalcade (1998) Throne Price (2002) "Suspended Lives" (2003) (short story)

The Calgary Coven Homepage was instigated by Alison Sinclair. Last modified May 2007