Frank Macdonald

Cape Breton

Frank Macdonald, is the award-winning author of "A Forest for Calum", long-listed for the 2007 IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award. A long-time and award-winning columnist, Macdonald is an accomplished writer of short stories, drama, poetry and songs. His humorous, often satirical columns in the Inverness Oran have twice been anthologized; "Assuming I’m Right" in 1990 became a stage production that has toured Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada. His play "Her Wake" won Best Canadian Play at the Liverpool International Theatre Festival in 2010 and, also in 2010, he authored "T.R.’s Adventure at Angus the Wheeler’s", a children`s book, illustrated by Virginia McCoy. Frank lives in Inverness, Cape Breton. His second novel, "A Possible Madness" was published in 2011.