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Had a great time being part of the cast of Regina Lyric Musical Theatre‘s production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I played Fogg (the insane asylum keeper) and also sang in …
My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, a nominee for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards, is also a finalist for the 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division. This is …
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m up for two Aurora Awards this year! Fireboy is on the ballot for Best Young Adult Novel, and The Worldshapers is once again on the ballot for Best Fan …
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This is Easter weekend; last weekend, I sang in the Easter concert of First Baptist Church here in Regina as a guest soloist and chorister. The whole concert is worth listening to, but if you’d …
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Read my Aurora-eligible story “Quid est Veritas?”
I put a link to this in the previous post on my Aurora-eligible work for 2025, but wanted to highlight it.
This was my contribution to the Shapers of Worlds Volume V anthology, and it had a good response: two stars on Tangent Online’s 2025 Recommended Reading List, for example.
At the time the anthology came out, Tangent Online’s reviewer wrote:
“Quid est Veritas?” by Edward Willett is very good. Jonathan Timmins is Truth-immune and has hidden it so well his entire life that he is now Prime of the Central Office of the Instrumentality of Information. He oversees the dissemination of the Daily Truth through the mental implants everyone is literally reprogrammed with. Falling in love gives Jonathan the courage he needs to challenge the system. In the tradition of 1984 and Equilibrium and very satisfying.
Read the whole story here!
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2026/03/read-my-aurora-eligible-story-quid-est-veritas/
