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Caroline Woodward

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Caroline Woodward is a writer and now-retired lighthouse keeper from the Lennard Island Lightstation, near Tofino, B.C. She has relocated to her favourite village, New Denver, B.C. where she and her husband founded the Motherlode Bookstore . She writes short and long fiction, poetry, children's picture books, for children aged 8-11, young adult fiction, non-fiction essays and articles, book reviews, sound pieces for CBC Radio and assorted other ephemera.

She grew up on a homestead in the north Peace River region of B.C. without benefit of electricity, TV, running water, computers, et cetera but with hundreds of acres of land, horses to ride, forts to build and a radio which ran on batteries.

In 2016, Northern Lights College awarded Caroline Woodward an honorary associate of arts degree to celebrate her literary contribution of books set in the Peace River region for adults and children, including Singing Away the Dark which is now published in South Korea, Bulgaria, Quebec, China, Japan and the throughout the English-speaking world.

After a busy and varied career, mostly in publishing and bookselling as a manuscript reader, publicist, managing editor, author, playwright, reading series and festival organizer, creative writing teacher, bookseller and publishers' rep, she enjoyed writing in splendid isolation. From 2008-2021, she worked as a full and part-time lighthouse keeper on the coast of British Columbia where there are 27 staffed lightstations. Her memoir about her first seven years "on the lights", Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper, was a B.C. bestseller and was nominated by the booksellers of British Columbia for the Bill Duthie Booksellers Award in 2016.

Caroline writes book reviews for BC Bookworld and BC BookLook and had a column about lighthouse life in Harrowsmith magazine for three years.

Her most recent collaboration was a children's picture book with Salt Spring Island painter, Carol Evans, A West Coast Summer, which launched in the fall 2018 from Harbour Publishing. It was a B.C. bestseller for over twelve weeks and made the Top 20 B.C. Bestseller list for 2018. It was also nominated for a picture book Chocolate Lily Award by B.C. school children in 2019.

Caroline's next two-book project is a young adult adventure set in 2059 in the North Pacific Ocean. A prototype trimaran and a motley crew of live-aboards and rescued humans and creatures do their best to survive the unpredictable climate, faceless cargo ships and thieving pirates as they head north toward rumours of food and good water. The second novel takes the Captain and another crew through the Northwest Passage heading toward Old Europe. Stay tuned!

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Caroline Woodward

Caroline Woodward

Books from Caroline Woodward

Singing Away the Dark

Singing Away the Dark

Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper

Disturbing the Peace

The Village of Many Hats

Alaska Highway Two-Step

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