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AVAILABLE NOW!
Journey Through Seasons
Creating Family History: Heritage Project
Middle-Grade Fiction: O’Malley, The Mail-Order Dog
Reading & Crafts
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Single Onion Open Mic, Featured Poet – January 8th, 2026, Calgary.
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Word Struck, Okotoks, October 18, 2025.
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2025 Foothills Young Authors’ Conference
Saturday May 10, 2025 at Holy Trinity Academy
Dorothy will present her HERO STORIES workshop in three sessions for middle-grade and high school students.
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Poetry Reading
Single Onion Poetry Reading Series, Shelf Life Books, April 17, 2025.
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Panel Discussion
Dorothy will host & moderate a panel discussion on March 20, 2025, at the Okotoks Public Library
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ENGL9201. Learners explore the elements of storytelling through instruction and discussion, practice various approaches with writing exercises, overcome writing hesitancy, and develop critiquing abilities.
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When Words Collide 2024, A Readers’ and Writers’ Festival. August 16-18, 2024
Dorothy will offer a creative process session, Cupcake Creativity; and she will moderate a panel discussion on blending genres, both at When Words Collide.
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School presentation for Grades 1 – 3, called The North, with a focus on sub-arctic and arctic regions of Canada, with props/artifacts, and picture book reading. 30 minutes – 1 hour. Contact to request information.
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Middle-Grade – High School Presentation
Note Received on the presentation: “I am the Learning Commons Facilitator at [a school]. I have just purchased Escape From The Wildfire from our local bookstore for our school library and would like some information about your availability and fees for a possible reading presentation/workshop with our Grade 5 and 6 students. I hear from the librarian at [a different school] that their students loved it!“
Feedback received from a teacher/team lead: “We can’t thank you enough! The students loved the presentation and I stared reading Escape from the Wildfire at the end of the day and the students were so engrossed and captivated right off the bat. We had great discussions about all the figurative language, even in the first few pages. We certainly learned a lot and appreciate you coming to spend some time with us.”
Email to request a booking: dorothy.bentley.ca@gmail.com
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Dorothy will be at the Foothills Writers Group’s Local Author Book Fair, at the Okotoks Public. Saturday October 14, 11 am – 3 pm. She will have both her picture book, YA novel, plus free colour pages, stickers, and craft for children.
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When Words Collide, A Festival for Readers and Writers Calgary, Alberta, August 4-6, 2023
Dorothy will be appearing in the following panels, and leading a workshop on YA fiction.
Professional Associations Welcome You! panel, Why Write for Children? panel, The Role of Visual Media on How Authors Write panel, Laugh lines: Exploring Humour in Children’s Literature panel, Writing Mental Health panel, and You Believe WHAT?! Writing about Controversial Topics in YA workshop.
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Summer Write, 2023
Experience the energy of collaborative creativity. Join this weekly session where you’ll contribute to a conversation exploring the writer’s inner resistance and learn tools to push past. Open to all levels. By application only. Space is limited to a small group experience.
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Writers’ Guild of Alberta, Annual Conference June 2nd – 4th, 2023
Dorothy will be hosting Emily St. James Mandel in Conversation
Sunday June 4th
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Thursday May 18, 6 PM. Foothills Writers Group monthly meeting. Educational session: Traditional Publishing, with Dorothy Bentley. Okotoks Public Library.
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GET LIT Writers Series: Saturday March 25th, 2023
Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society. A day full of workshops, in person, 9-5pm
AWCS Members: $150 | Non-Members: $200
Agents of Change: Writing Young Capable Characters, 10 AM.
This workshop will dive into the importance of creating themes of agency and advocacy in children’s books. We’ll take a brief tour of prominent children’s stories to examine how authors have created characters that have a light yet lasting presence. The second part of the workshop will consist of exercises to help writers develop their skills with the components of agency.
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Sunday February 5th, 2023. 1 – 2 PM. Wood Buffalo Regional Library
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November 22
Two Authors, Two Books
Dorothy Bentley with her YA tale Escape from the Wildfire, and Dee Hahn, with her middle-grade story, The Grave Thief, will interview each other and read from their novels. This is an online event. Thank you to Shelf Life Books, in Calgary, for hosting the event! November 24, 2022, 7 PM, MT. Please find the join link by clicking on the Shelf Life link above.
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Award
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Book Signing
Escape from the Wildfire. Owl’s Nest Books, Monday October 17th, 7 – 8 PM. Thank you to Owl’s Nest Books for hosting this author event! Books are now in store.
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Escape from the Wildfire, author reading plus Q&A.
Yooneek Books, Okotoks, Alberta. Wednesday September 28, 2022, 6:30 PM. Thank you to this wonderful little bookstore for hosting this event!
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Poetry Reading
M(othering) Anthology, Inanna Education & Publications Inc. One of several poets reading for the Single Onion Poetry Reading Series. Shelf Life Books, Calgary, Alberta. Thursday September 15, 7 PM, 2022
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Picture Book Reading
Summer Northing Coming, Winter North Coming, picture book reading during Storytime. Wood Buffalo Regional Library. Thursday June 23, 1 PM, 2022.
Writers’ Guild of Alberta annual conference. In person at the Calgary Central Library, June 4; Children’s Literature panel discussion, online June 5, 2022.
M(othering) Anthology launch, Calgary Central Library, Performance Theatre, June 2, 2022
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