Kayt Burgess is a Canadian writer, who won the Three-Day Novel Contest in 2011 for her

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''Heidegger Stairwell''."34th annual 3-Day International Novel Contest winner Kayt Burgess not daunted by deadlines"
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'', October 4, 2012. Published by

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in 2012, the novel was subsequently a shortlisted nominee for the 2013

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in the fiction category. She was also a finalist in the 2012 Three-Day Novel Contest, but did not win, for the not-yet-published novel ''Fauvel''. ''Heidegger Stairwell'', about a successful Canadian

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band on the verge of collapse due to internal tensions, is narrated by a former girlfriend of the band's lead guitarist who has recently come out as a

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,"Heidegger Stairwell"
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'', October 8, 2012. and was noted for its unconventional narrative technique, including "editorial notes" from various characters disputing and contradicting the version of the story presented by the narrator. The novel was subsequently adapted by music journalist

Chandler Levack Chandler Levack is a Canadian writer and filmmaker. She is a two-time Juno Award nominee for Video of the Year, receiving nominations alongside Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux at the Juno Awards of 2015 for directing PUP's "Guilt Trip" music video, and at ...

for the short film ''

We Forgot to Break Up ''We Forgot to Break Up'' is a 2017 Canadian short drama film directed by Chandler Levack. Adapted from the novel ''Heidegger Stairwell'' by Kayt Burgess,Jordan Adler"WE FORGOT TO BREAK UP PREMIERES AT TIFF" ''Canadian Jewish News'', September 5, ...

'' in 2017; a full-length feature film adaptation to be directed by Karen Knox entered production in November 2022 for likely release in 2023.Melanie Goodfellow
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'', November 9, 2022. Burgess has also published short stories in the literary journals '' The Pinch'' and ''Mosaic'', and published a standalone short story, "The Soprano", with Found Press in 2013. Born in

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and raised in Elliot Lake, Burgess was educated at

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, the

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and

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. She currently lives in

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, Ontario.

Works

*''Heidegger Stairwell'' (2012, ) *''The Soprano'' (2013, ) *''Connection at Newcombe'' (2021)

References

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