Canadian
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writer, whose debut short story collection ''Bad Things Happen'' won the 2017
Danuta Gleed Literary Award
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Nova Scotia
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Halifax Chronicle-Herald
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Early years
Founded in 1874 as ''The Morning Herald'', the paper quickly became one of Halifax's main newspapers. The same ...
'', October 7, 2012. he was a longlisted
Journey Prize
The Journey Prize (officially called The Writers' Trust of Canada McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize) is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by McClelland and Stewart and the Writers' Trust of Canada for the best short stories published b ...
nominee in 2012 for his short story "Is Alive and Can Move". His work has been published in ''
The Malahat Review
''The Malahat Review'' is a Canadian quarterly literary magazine established in 1967. It features contemporary Canadian and international works of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian litera ...
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Prism International
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The New Quarterly
''The New Quarterly'' is a literary magazine based in Waterloo, Ontario that publishes short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction from emerging and established Canadian writers.
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''The New Quarterly'' was established in ...
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The Antigonish Review
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''Bad Things Happen'' was published in 2016 by
Biblioasis
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His second short story collection, ''Use Your Imagination!'', was shortlisted for the 2020 ReLit Award for fiction."38 books shortlisted for 2020 ReLit Awards"
CBC Books
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