Writing History

Winona's novels, novellas, short fiction and scripts

Novels & Novellas

Bad Boy
Novel · Published September 2024 by Winona Kent and Blue Devil Books. Audiobook published March 2025 by Amazon Audible, narrated by Nick Johnson.
Ticket to Ride
Novel · Published March 2022 by Winona Kent and Blue Devil Books.
Salty Dog Blues
Novella · Published by Sisters in Crime - Canada West in their debut anthology Crime Wave 1: Where Maple Meets Murder, November 2020. Finalist, Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence for Best Crime Novella, 2021.
Lost Time
Novel · Published August 2020 by Winona Kent and Blue Devil Books.
Notes on a Missing G-String
Novel · Published August 2019 by Winona Kent and Blue Devil Books.
Marianne's Memory
Novel · Published March 2018 by Winona Kent.
Disturbing the Peace
Novella · Published December 2017 by Winona Kent.
In Loving Memory
Novel · Originally published July 2016 by Diversion Books. Honourable Mention, London Book Festival 2017. Republished July 2020 by Winona Kent.
Persistence of Memory
Novel · Originally published September 2013 by Fable Press. Republished July 2015 by Diversion Books and July 2020 by Winona Kent.
Cold Play
Novel · Originally published May 2012. Republished July 2015 by Diversion Books and July 2020 by Winona Kent.
The Cilla Rose Affair
Novel · Originally published 2001 and 2011. Republished July 2015 by Diversion Books and July 2020 by Winona Kent.
Skywatcher
Novel · Finalist, Seal Books First Novel Competition. Originally published 1989 by Bantam Books (US) and Seal Books (Canada). Republished July 2015 by Diversion Books and July 2020 by Winona Kent.

Short Fiction

Cross-Check
Published by Sisters in Crime - Canada West in Crime Wave 4: Home Sweet Homicide, coming in October 2026.
Between Stations
Published by The Second-Act Sleuths in Murder on the Menu, coming in Summer 2026.
Four Short Sets with Jason Davey
Collection of four short works of fiction · Published by Winona Kent and Blue Devil Books. Coming in Summer 2026.
On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog
Published by Sisters in Crime - Canada West in Crime Wave 3: Dangerous Games, November 2024.
Ten Stories That Worried My Mother
Collection of ten short stories · Published August 2023 by Winona Kent and Blue Devil Books. Includes four prize-winners, three mysteries, two previously unpublished works, and one in which the hero manages to spare-change John Lennon at the premiere of A Hard Day's Night in 1964.
Terminal Lucidity
Published by Sisters in Crime - Canada West in Crime Wave 2: Women of a Certain Age, October 2022.
Blue Devil Blues
Short story · Published in the crime anthology Last Shot, June 2021.
Easy When You Know How
Original short story published by Diversion Books with In Loving Memory, July 2016. Republished July 2020 by Winona Kent.
Perhaps an Angel
Originally published in Fable's Carnival, a short story collection by Fable Press authors. Republished by Winona Kent, September 2017.
Dietrich's Ash
Okanagan Short Fiction Award winner · Published in Canadian Author & Bookman. Anthologized in Pure Fiction (Fitzhenry & Whiteside). Broadcast on CBC Radio's Ambience.
Creatures from Greek Mythology
Second Prize Winner and WQ Editors Prize · Published in Cross-Canada Writers Quarterly.
Tower of Power
First Prize, Annual Fiction Competition · Published in Flare.
True Confessions
Published in Green's Magazine.

Film & Television Scripts

Just Breathe
Unproduced pilot episode, potential TV series · One-hour drama/comedy · Spec script.
Written by Colleen Clandening, Nola Tompkins, Winona Kent & Cherie Dinwoodie.
Persistence of Memory
Unproduced feature film · Written by Winona Kent.
A young woman who travels back in time to 1825 England must convince her great (x6) grandmother to marry the right man — or there will be dire consequences.
All Zen
Lifestyle / Fusion Cuisine / Entertainment series · 2 pilot episodes.
Written by Winona Kent and Nola Tompkins.
Production Company: Zane David Entertainment Inc. Producers: James Wong & Colleen Clandening.
Broadcast on Novus Community Channel – NVTV 4, Vancouver.
The Protection Team
Unproduced TV series, pilot episode: Tidings of Comfort and Joy · Hour-long dramatic series · Spec script.
Written by Colleen Clandening, Byron McKim, Nola Tompkins and Winona Kent.
Committee of the Unloved
Feature film · Written by Winona Kent, Nola Tompkins and Jim Mandelin.
Optioned by Carrie Wheeler Films and Sistar Films, August 2008.
Based on the true story of Vancouver educator and counsellor Jim Mandelin.
Ten Song Drive
Feature film (Drama) · Written by Winona Kent and Nola Tompkins.
Optioned by Zane David Productions, April 2009.
A charming womanizer arrives in Lightning Creek, Saskatchewan to buy a plot of land. Aided by his old friend Oz, a tripped-out rocker from the 1970s, Jeremy re-ignites his dream of producing a world-class music festival in the middle of the Canadian prairies — but his plans hit a snag when he involves himself with three women, each of whom uncovers the deceit inherent in his personality.
Featured at Final Draught, December 2006 and February 2008.
Haunting Hamlet
Unproduced feature film (Drama) · Written by Winona Kent.
A young woman who runs a website for an A-list actor takes on the impossible task of interviewing him when he appears in a musical production of Hamlet in London's West End — and discovers the identity of her biological father, changing her life in unexpected ways.
Featured at The Cold Reading Series, Vancouver, July 6, 2006 and August 2, 2007.
Herd Maintenance
Optioned 20-minute short (Comedy) · Written by Winona Kent.
A subversive temp finds work in a government office dedicated to providing grants to dairy farmers. And then the Bovine Liberation Front invades.
Featured at Final Draught, November 7, 2005.
Found at Sea / Life Boat
Feature film (Drama) · Written by Winona Kent.
Optioned by Principia Productions, 2005.
A drama set on a cruise ship in Alaska.
Tower of Power
30-minute teleplay · One night in the life of a rock & roll radio newsman.
Developed for CBC TV anthology series Lies from Lotus Land.