Angela Mombourquette, 2018 Magazine Award Winner

Angela Mombourquette is an award-winning freelance writer and columnist, and the author of 25 Years of 22 Minutes: An Unauthorized Oral History of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. She is a former associate editor at Saltscapes magazine, and former editor of Atlantic Books Today. Her writing has appeared in Walrus, the United Church Observer, the Chronicle Herald, Halifax Magazine and many other publications.

Angela has worked as a professional writer and editor for more than a decade; she writes for numerous magazines and newspapers (both local and national). In 2012, she won the George Cadogan Memorial Outstanding Columnist Award at the Canadian Community Newspaper Awards. Angela has a master's degree in journalism from the University of King's College in Halifax and is also a part-time journalism instructor there.

Angela's winning submission was for her article "Island Access" which was published in the May 2018 edition of the United Church Observer (now Broadview Magazine). The article is about how abortion rights advocates in P.E.I. ultimately won a decades-long battle to bring abortions back to the province.

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