The New Guard Volume V includes “Last Call at the Dogwater Inn” by Kristyn Dunnion, the winning entry for the 2015 Machigonne Fiction prize adjudicated by Adam Braver. Also featuring Anne Witty, the Knightville Poetry contest winner, and all contest finalists. $20 for all that! Feed your mind – it loves Read more…
Write Like You Mean It! is a creative writing series with author Kristyn Dunnion at the Toronto Reference Library (3rd Floor Discussion Room) at 789 Yonge Street, north of Bloor.There are four sessions to check out – come to as many as you can! Write Like You Mean it on Read more…
Posted on April 22, 2016 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian Big Big Sky by Toronto punk author Kristyn Dunnion is perhaps the strangest book I’ve ever read. But I mean strange in that’s it’s wonderfully weird in a way that makes your brain stretch a little bit in a direction it’s never gone before. It’s certainly Read more…
Glitterwolf Magazine’s 2nd annual special UK Halloween edition is out, hot off the press! Find within its pages a motley collection of creeptastic Queer stories and poems. Startling images, sleek design. It’s hot and it’s disturbing as Hell! Read my beloved “Nobody Loves the Hulk,” a domestic horror set in Read more…
I’m so grateful to learn that “Last Call at the Dogwater Inn,” a new story from my unpublished collection, won first place in the Machigonne Fiction contest, adjudicated by Adam Braver. It will be featured in The New Guard Volume V, forthcoming Spring 2016. What an honour!To learn more about Read more…
This weekend Glad Day Books in Toronto is hosting over one hundred queer authors in four venues. Writers will be presenting workshops, giving readings and panel discussions. and let’s not forget there will be PARTIES. Visit the homo-page at www.nakedheart.ca for updated schedules and the low-down on what’s happening. Join Read more…
Quit with the half measures and WRITE LIKE YOU MEAN IT with me on Saturday October 17 at 7 pm, part of the Naked Heart literary festival happening in Toronto. Bring your sharp pencil and mind, we will be writing our brains out.https://www.facebook.com/events/1629746073953138/ Check out the festival happenings at www.nakedheart.ca Read more…
Plentitude Magazine published my shout out to the incredible GB Jones! Â Check out the Query Project online and learn which queer Canadian artists have made the biggest impact on contemporary Canadian writers. https://plenitudemagazine.ca/the-query-project-kristyn-dunnion/
‘Now is the Time to Light Fires’, a story from my brand newest, unpublished speculative collection, is a semi-finalist in the Psychopomp Magazine 2015 fiction contest. Hurray! Check out psychopompmag.com and see what they are up to. Special thanks to judge Kate Bernheimer (https://www.katebernheimer.com/)
http://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/9781626393912e.html Bold Strokes Books announce their new release of Saints + Sinners 2015 Festival Anthology, Eds Paul Willis and Amie Evans, available in e-book and paperback.This book celebrates the winning and finalist entries of the Saints + Sinners 2014 queer short fiction contest.Find the heartbreaking and heretic “Wrens’ Knell,” my Read more…