Barbara Nickel

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOVELS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

1996  The Secret Wish of Nannerl Mozart  Second Story Press
2005  Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach  Penguin Canada
2021  Dear Peter, Dear Ulla Thistledown Press

POETRY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

1999  From the Top of a Grain Elevator   Dundurn Press

PICTURE BOOKS

2015 A Boy Asked the Wind  Red Deer Press
2027 (forthcoming) The Moon is a Hammock  Kids Can Press

POETRY FOR ADULTS

1997  The Gladys Elegies  Coteau Books
2007  Domain  House of Anansi Press
2021   Essential Tremor Caitlin Press

NON-FICTION FOR ADULTS

2026 Quodlibet: A Year in Music (also by Ian Hampton)  Ronsdale Press

RE-RELEASED

2006  Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach, mass market edition  Penguin Canada
2014  The Secret Wish of Nannerl Mozart, Sumach Classic edition  Canadian Scholars Press
2019 The Mozart Girl (reissue of The Secret Wish of Nannerl Mozart) Second Story Press

News

Barbara will present at Vancouver Island BookFest in Nanaimo, May 3-7, 2027.

The Moon is a Hammock, a picture book with text by Barbara to be illustrated by Geraldo Valério, is forthcoming with Kids Can Press in Fall 2027. Read about it here!

Barbara’s poem “Your Hands” was published in The Walrus. Read it here!

Barbara’s poem “Three-in-One,” originally published in Grain Magazine, appeared in Best Canadian Poetry 2024  (Biblioasis) edited by Bardia Sinaee.

Check out Barbara’s 45-minute teaching video on Creating Believable Characters for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes’ In Class video library.

Essential Tremor reviewed in The Vancouver Sun. Read full review here.

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Author Visits

Interested in booking Barbara to visit your school or library? Choose from a wide range of presentations, from poetry workshops to readings of historical fiction.

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Books

The Mozart Girl

Wolfgang Mozart’s sister was also a musical genius. This is the story that could have been…

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A Boy Asked the Wind

A boy asks the wind, “Where do you live?”

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