Andrea Routley is a

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writer based in

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."Crush worthy"
. ''

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'', March 21, 2013. Her short story collection ''Jane and the Whales'' was a finalist for the

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for Debut Fiction at the

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in 2014. Her short stories appear in Canadian literary magazines such as

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and The Fiddlehead Review. She was a founder of the LGBT literary magazine '' Plenitude'' and of the Sunshine Coast's (Canada) Read Out Loud LGBT reading series, and was editor of the 2010 anthology ''Walk Myself Home: An Anthology to End Violence Against Women''. In 2020, her book ''This Unlikely Soil'' was shortlisted for the Malahat Review Novella Prize. During the 2022-23 winter, Routley was a writer-in-residence at the Haig-Brown House of the Campbell River Museum on

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, where she planned to finish a new novel.

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