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Ursula Pflug

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Ursula Pflug

Ursula Pflug Ursula Pflug lives in Ontarion, Canada.

Ursula M. Pflug is the author of the novel, “Green Music.” It received favourable coverage in Canada, the US and the UK. Pflug travelled in Canada and the United States to promote “Green Music.”

    Pflug has published over fifty short stories in professional publications, in print and on the web in three countries, beginning with “Memory Lapse at The Waterfront” in New Bodies (Emanation Press, Toronto, 1981) Pflug wrote the script and storyboard for the short film version, directed by Carol McBride. “Waterfont” toured festivals and was purchased by WTN. “The Eyes Of Horus,” appears in The Nine Muses, (Wheatland Press, Oregon, 2005) an invitational anthology of women speculative writers, edited by World Fantasy Award winner Forrest Aguirre, with an introduction by WFA winner Elizabeth Hand. “The Wizard Of Wardenclyffe,” appeared in the WFA winning anthology series, Leviathan, (Ministry of Whimsy, Florida, 2004) edited by Mr. Aguirre. “In Dreams We Remember,” was written as a monologue for “The Maeve Project,” a theatre piece directed by Rhonda Payne, funded by the OAC and the Laidlaw Foundation. (Peterborough, 2000.) It was published as a memorial to Ms. Payne in the journal, “Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet,” edited by multiple award winners Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant. (Small Beer Press, Maine, 2003.) “Stones,” which appeared in Divine Realms, edited by Susan MacGregor, (Ravenstone, Winnipeg, 1998) was an honourable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. “Python” was the winner of the Rose Secrest Fiction Competition, (USA) a prize for literary speculative short fiction in 1997, but did not see print till last year, in Album Zutique 1, a decadent anthology series edited by WFA award winner Jeff VanderMeer. (Ministry of Whimsy, Florida, 2004.) “Late For Dinner,” archived at www.strangehorizons.com was nominated for The Pushcart Prize in 2001. “Gone With The Sea,” published in Tesseracts Eight, (Edmonton, 1999) is on the curriculum of a university course on Canadian speculative fiction.

    Pflug has received numerous Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and Laidlaw Foundation grants in support of her novels, short fiction and plays. Most recently, she received a 2005 OAC Works-In-Progress grant to complete her new novel, “Thin Wednesday.” She has been short listed for the Descant novella contest (1987); Pulp Press’s Three Day Novel contest (1982); and an Aurora Award for “The Waterman,” published in Canada in Tesseracts 3, (Victoria: Press Porcepic. 1990); in the US in Air Fish, (Cat's Eye Press. San Diego, 1993); and the UK, in Back Brain Recluse # 23 (Sheffield 1997). She has been a featured author at Alexandria Digital Literature. She was formerly on the executive, and is still a member of SF CANADA, the professional Canadian speculative fiction writers' association. She is a board member of The Cooked and Eaten, a Peterborough based reading series featuring local and touring authors, and a member of Broad Universe, an international association of women speculative fiction writers. Pflug was a contributing editor at the cultural journal “The Peterborough Review,” for two years.(‘94-‘95) She has taught fiction workshops for both adults and children. She continues teaching by mentoring private clients in short fiction.

    Another notable play is, “Hallelujah, I’m A Bum,” co-authored with Ian Mclachlan, directed by the late Ms. Payne. A 1930's historical drama based on community stories, “Hallelujah” was funded by the OAC and by Laidlaw, and was staged in both the historical town hall and train station in Havelock, On. (1998)

    Pflug entered journalism by writing art reviews for Toronto’s Now Magazine in the early eighties, and now writes reviews and essays about books for The Peterborough Examiner, The New York Review of Science Fiction and many other publications. Her most notable recent publication is the essay, “Telling The Dream To Kalalau.” Published in the NYRSF in March, 2005, it discusses the novels of Kathleen Ann Goonan and Ursula LeGuin, dreams and Hawaiian travel memoirs, both Goonan’s and her own.

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Books by Ursula Pflug:

1. GREEN MUSIC / Ursula Pflug
       -Edmonton : Tesseract Books, 2001.

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