We are very pleased to announce our fourth release: Key in Lock, a collection of short stories by Rona Altrows, will be released Saturday, October 23, 2010.

Photo by Jenny Tzanakos

Rona Altrows writes fiction, essays and plays. Key In Lock is her second collection of short fiction. Her earlier book, A Run On Hose, won the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction. Her work has been published in Other Voices, Prairie Fire, The Malahat Review and many other Canadian magazines. Altrows will serve as the Calgary Writer In Residence, Canadian Authors Association, Alberta Branch from fall 2010 to spring 2011. She is a past Writer in Residence for the Calgary Public Library and for the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society. A firm believer in supporting her fellow writers, she, along with Lori Hahnel, co-created and co-organizes an annual celebration of the writing process called Writing In The Works. Altrows teaches creative writing workshops and edits works of fiction and non-fiction. She and Naomi K. Lewis are currently compiling an anthology on shyness.