Tricia Snell is a writer and flutist. In September 2024, her fiction chapbook, Nellie: An Imagined History, was published by The Little Books Collective (Lunenburg, NS). Past literary highlights include a poetry chapbook, Rooted (Little Books Collective, June, 2023); the story “Out to the Horses” long-listed for the 2019 CBC Short Story Award and published in Room magazine (Dec 2019); the story “A Glass of Vodka” included in the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project / National Public Radio show, The Sound of Writing and read by actor Barbara Rappaport (1993). Tricia is also the author of a nonfiction book/directory Artist Communities (Allworth Press, 1996/2000) . Other of her writing can be found in Every Day Fiction, Art Papers, Oregon Humanities, The Oregonian, and The Grove Review.
Tricia teaches writing workshops (Generative, Craft, and Critique) as well as novel study groups (through Soapstone) from her home studio in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. For information click here.
As a flutist, Tricia has performed in various chamber music ensembles and community orchestras, with choirs, and in informal folk bands and Celtic sessions. Currently she plays in the trio, Trillium (flute, fiddle, guitar). Trillium plays acoustic Impressionist, Modern, Celtic, Renaissance, & Folk music and is available for events. (Email TrilliumNovaScotia@gmail.com or call 902-514-8722 to book them.)
Tricia is a trained music teacher (Suzuki and Music Together certified) who has taught in public schools, community music schools, preschools, and her own private flute & recorder studio. Currently she is taking a break from music teaching.
Tricia holds an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from George Mason University, (Fairfax, Virginia, USA) and an ARCT flute performance diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
Tricia has led two arts nonprofits and been a writer/project manager for environmental organizations. She was most recently Executive Director of Caldera, an Oregon youth arts and artist residency nonprofit (2007-2017) and founding Executive Director of the international network of artist residency programs, the Alliance of Artists Communities (1994-2002).
Tricia has held a range of public service and arts grant panelist roles. In 2015 she was proud to accept, on behalf of Caldera, a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, presented to her and a Caldera student by First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House in Washington DC.
She lives in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 1022
Lunenburg, NS B0J 2C0
CANADA
Email: Tricia@TriciaSnell.com
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