Ace Baker
Ace Baker, writer
Ace Baker is a writer, poet, and writing coach from Vancouver, Canada. His short story, "Victory Girl," won the Storyteller Award, and his poetry has won the SIWC, PNWA, and Magpie awards, among others. Both is prose and poetry have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and National Magazine Awards.
Ghosts Left on Our Skin — Volume 9, Issue 2 - 12/24
In Ghosts Left on Our Skin, Ace Baker presents a searing exploration of how war systematically dehumanizes its victims, erasing individual identities, and reducing people to interchangeable parts in a cruel machine that perpetuates itself across generations.
Not Julie…Yet — Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23
Embodying the voice and feelings of a teenaged girl trying to be comfortable in her own skin, Ace Baker employs Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as a vehicle to launch the search for self confidence in his witty and universal story, Not Julie...Yet.
Completing the Circle — Volume 6, Issue 3 - 03/20
In Completing the Circle, a companion piece to his Story Matters essay “The Power of Three”, published in the March 2020 issue of Blank Spaces, Ace Baker shares how he caught the eye of the judges in our short fiction contest ‘The Things We Leave Behind’ and took first place.
The Power of Three — Volume 4, Issue 3 - 03/20
Ace Baker delivers a helpful writing lesson in The Power of Three.
Ace took Second Place in our December 2019 Write Prompt Challenge with his story The Cocoon, Breaking Up.
Ace took third place in our September 2019 Write Prompt Challenge with his story Plow Breaks Soil.
