Canadian Writer, Public Speaker, Queer Punk Performer
Quill & Quire • Posted: April 19, 2021
ReLit, the prize celebrating books by independent presses, has announced the winners of its 2021 awards. The prize has returned after being dormant for four years, and is celebrating by retroactively honouring winners for 2018, 2019, and now 2021. Winners have been named in the categories of poetry, short fiction, and novels. Short fiction Stoop City, Kristyn Dunnion (Biblioasis)
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
cfmu.ca • Podcast interview with Kristyn Dunnion by Jamie Tennant