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 City from now until Guy Fawkes Day (November 5th for the ‘propertarian class’ as Ursula K. Read more…
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 acceptance, the deep magic of city living and the gritty realism of ghosts.https://cfmu.ca/episodes/23237-get-lit-episode-for-2020-10-15
cfmu.ca • Podcast interview with Kristyn Dunnion by Jamie Tennant
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.
I’m thrilled to say my new story collection, STOOP CITY, is breaching Canadian bookshelves this September. You can pre-order copies at your local, friendly indie bookstore! If you’re in Toronto, try www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com , who partners with www.biblioasis.com for a virtual live launch on Tuesday September 22 at 7 PM EDT. Read more…
CBC BooksMarch 27, 2020 Tarry This Night by Kristyn Dunnion Kristyn Dunnion’s book Tarry This Night is a dystopian novel in which a new civil war has broken out in the U.S. (Liz Marshall/Arsenal Pulp Press) As civil war brews above ground in the U.S., a dangerous cult led by a Read more…
A hands-on, mixed media workshop where participants imagine what it might take to survive and thrive in an unknown future. What might our future/s look like, if we visualize and strategize from a place of strength and hopefulness? We’ll create visual representations or ‘blueprints’.No drawing or writing experience necessary – Read more…
The good folks at Spacing Magazine are celebrating 15 years of awesome urban work by launching an anthology exploring potential life in Toronto, fifteen years from now. Hence, Toronto 2033 edited by Jim Munroe, illustrated by Mathew Borrett, and directed by Matthew Blackett. Local sci fi writers were invited to Read more…
If you happen to be in San Francisco, California, hit up STRUT, the Foglifter Launch Party Extravaganza for Volume 3 Issue 2 …. Saturday November 10, 2018 at 470 Castro Street Bubbly and dancefloor extremism and readings from the latest issue. Order a copy online and enjoy the queer delights Read more…