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Ottawa writer Kate Heartfield has been nominated for two auspicious Nebula Awards for science fiction writing.

Heartfield, who teaches journalism at Carleton University and was the Ottawa Citizen’s editorial pages editor when she left the paper in 2015, is nominated in the novella category for Alice Payne Arrives, a time-travel adventure. Heartfield’s The Road to Canterbury is nominated in the brand new game-writing category.

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“This is … amazing. It’s one of those wildest-dream moments,” Heartfield tweeted Wednesday. “My very first thought upon waking up, the last few days since I got the call, has been, ‘Wait, did that actually happen?'”

The Nebula Awards are voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. They are one of the two best-known awards for science fiction writers, the other being the Hugo Awards.

Previous Nebula Award recipients include Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin and Margaret Atwood.

Heartfield wrote on her website that she will attend the Nebula ceremony and conference in Los Angeles in mid-May.

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