Barbara Nickel

Click here for the YouTube recording of Barbara’s October 20, 2021 virtual launch of Dear Peter, Dear Ulla, hosted by McNally Robinson Booksellers (Saskatoon) and Thistledown Press (and in conversation with Pat Cooley and Ian Hampton).

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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