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43 books shortlisted for 2018 Relit Awards, as prize returns after 4-year hiatus

April 7, 2021 by Kristyn Dunnion

43 books shortlisted for 2018 Relit Awards, as prize returns after 4-year hiatus

CBC Books · Posted: April 07, 2021

After a four-year hiatus, the ReLit Awards have returned. The ReLit Awards honour the best Canadian books published by independent presses. There are three categories: novel, short fiction and poetry.

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Fiction Book Review: Stoop City by Kristyn Dunnion

February 1, 2021 by Kristyn Dunnion

The heroines in Dunnion’s defiant collection offer refreshingly blunt observations about the world around them, in settings alternating between the gritty and the fantastical.

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Appel Salon Program, Toronto Public Library Jan 19 2021

January 4, 2021 by Kristyn Dunnion

Please join me Tuesday, January 19th, 2021 from 7 pm -8 pm for a lively discussion of my recent story collection, STOOP CITY, one of the Globe & Mail’s most anticipated Fall books. Leading the […]

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Quill & Quire Review: Stoop City, Kristyn Dunnion

December 12, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

What an assured and attractively variegated collection of stories. Set in Toronto and small-town southern Ontario, Kristyn Dunnion’s 13 short pieces are marvellous feats of pacing and styling bolstered by vibrant characterization and enviable turns of phrase.

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All Lit Up: Tell us a little about your book and how it came to be

October 29, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

All Lit Up: Tell us a little about your book and how it came to be

Kristyn Dunnion joins us in the Indie Reading Room with her latest Stoop City (Biblioasis), a collection of stories that’s at once dark and funny and wholly absorbing about a gentrifying west-Toronto neighbourhood and a cast of characters down on their luck.

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All Lit UP!

October 29, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

Stoop City is featured in ALL LIT UP’s Indie Reading Room! Check it out for a cute Q&A, a live-recorded reading on All Lit Up’s IG account, and a generous 20% off copies of Stoop […]

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The fall’s best new books from independent publishers

October 20, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

The fall’s best new books from independent publishers

Some of the stories in Kristyn Dunnion’s latest collection are loosely linked by character, but what really unites Stoop City (Biblioasis) is its punk ethos, the way even a well-ordered condo careens towards anarchy with the addition of one feral cat or a dead girlfriend’s ghost.

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GET LIT on CFMU-FM

October 17, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

Jamie Tennant interviews me for GET LIT, his weekly podcast and radio show on CFMU-FM. We talk about the emotional but not necessarily financial rewards of the writing life, writing for social change vs social […]

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Get Lit episode for October 15, 2020

October 15, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

cfmu.ca • Podcast interview with Kristyn Dunnion by Jamie Tennant

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Xtra Magazine: Toronto at its Most Glitteringly Sad

September 21, 2020 by Kristyn Dunnion

Xtra Magazine:  Toronto at its Most Glitteringly Sad

XTRA* Magazine / Casey Plett • Posted: September 21, 2020

Kristyn Dunnion’s new story collection “Stoop City” blooms with characters down on their luck.

Smoothing linens with military precision is an unsung tradition in the janitorial arts. A properly made bed can console the itinerant, the broken-hearted, the homeless. Staging properties, she has learned over the years, is mostly about subtraction, about deleting personal history, something she takes very seriously. She continues to take things away with total exactitude, one after the other, until a purity in openness emerges, a balancing of light and air and material objects set in space; the lie of neutrality. This is the soothing of wounds, when complete; the calming of sorrows. Progress and satisfaction, here on earth.

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