Barbra Hesson

ABOUT ME:  Writing is a solitary life, but it doesn’t have to be when you share!

My newest adventure is reading tons of kids books and then reviewing them for the Calgary Herald newspaper here in Calgary.  Check out what’s new the first Sunday of every month in the “Books and the Arts” section or search by hesson on their site.

I have sold articles to Highlights for Children magazine entitled: “My Puppies Journey,”which was also featured in “Measurement Inc.“Another called,  “Home Improvement,” about birds and nesting, a porcupine story, “ A Prickly Situation,” and a fiction story called  “The Valentine Swap.”

I have also published, “The Unshakable Birdhouse,” in Nature Friend, and “The Journeys of a Writer,” in Westword, the Writer’s Guild of Alberta magazine.  I was a finalist in the Canadian Writer’s Guild 2001 contest for a children’s short story, “No More Monsters.” The same story won honorable mention out of 19,000 entries in the 2006 Writer’s Digest Children’s Fiction contest.  I was a semi-finalist in the Writer’s Union of Canada 2003 contest with “There’s a Frog in Your Peanut Butter Sandwich.”

I have completed four children’s novels about: a guardian angel dog named Gabriel, an evil Winter Fairy, a crazy mixed-up backwards day and a search of Mt. Ararat for Noah’s Ark.  All of which I am presently seeking a publisher.