Alison DeLory

MPR (MSVU), BPR (MSVU), BAA in Journalism (TMU), Leadership Badge (Dalhousie)

Alison DeLory is a writer, editor, teacher and communications professional. Most recently she was Director, Advancement Communications with Dalhousie University (2020–2026). Prior to that she was Associate Director of Communications at King’s (2017–2020).

Teaching Experience

University of King’s College, 8-week non-credit writing workshops

• Organizational Storytelling (2025)
• Fiction Fundamentals (2021)

Mount Saint Vincent University, credit courses in Communication Studies (2013–2019)

• Persuasive Writing
• Strategic Writing
• Intro to Writing and Editing
• Creative Nonfiction
• Mass Media and Public Opinion

Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) (2016–2017)

• Media Literacy

Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia

• Creative Nonfiction workshop (2016)
• The Braided Essay workshop (2015)

Books

• Making it Home, Nimbus Publishing (2019) *Finalist for Rakuten/Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
• Scotia Sinker, Sketch Publishing (2015)
• Becoming Fierce: Teen Stories IRL, Fierce Ink (2014), Anthology Contributor
• Lunar Lifter, Bryler Publishing (2012)
• Take as Directed, ECW Press (2010), Managing Editor

Magazines

• Editor, Dal Magazine (2025–2026); editorial panel, Dal Magazine (2021–2026)
• Editor, Tidings, University of King’s College (2018–2020)
• Editor, Folia Montana, Mount Saint Vincent University (2011–2014)
• Atlantic Canada Correspondent, Chatelaine Magazine (2009–2011)
• Associate Editor, The Medical Post (2001–2007)

Selected Writing Samples

• Quickening the pulse of biomedical innovation, Dal Magazine (2026)
• International rights scholar says look at history to understand our political present, Dal News (2024)
• Cindy Blackstock: Indigenous children are worth fighting for, Dal News (2022)
• For me, Sable Island feels like another dimension, CBC (2017)
• Finding beauty in unexpected places after my friend’s death, Globe and Mail (2016)

Judge

• Evelyn Richardson Nonfiction Award, Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (2017)
• CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize (2016)