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‘Now is the Time to Light Fires’, a story from my brand newest, unpublished speculative collection, is a semi-finalist in the Psychopomp Magazine 2015 fiction contest.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/)
https://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…
Names of the finalists from the 6th annual Saints and Sinners Short Fiction Contest have been released and their work will be published in an anthology by Bold Strokes Books. The book will be launched at the festival in New Orleans, March 27 – 29. In its 12th year, the Read more…
Starting 2015 off right! I’ll be packing my bags and heading down to Lexington, Kentucky to speak at the Bluegrass Writers’ Studio MFA Conference at the Downtown Lexington Hilton Hotel. If you’re in Kentucky, let’s sip bourbon!I’ll be reading Thursday, January 8th at 5:30 pm in the Hilton Triple Crown Read more…
Can’t wait for my visit to the Bluegrass Writers’ Studio winter residency this January. Kentucky, how I’ve dreamed of visiting you! Check it out:https://www.eku.edu/creativewriting/
Dear Mountains and Elk and Bear and Deer:Soon I shall be in your midst. That’s right, I’m heading to beautiful Banff for writing seclusion and chronic magic mad good times. If you see me there, wave. Happy Autumn, xo miss kristyn
In TORONTO? Come to a Gala Poetry (and fiction) Reading on August 31 at 161 Gerrard Street East, 2nd floor. Doors open at 7, show at 7:30, featuring: Philip Cairn, Judith Chandler, Martin Owen, and KRISTYN DUNNION August 31 @ Paddy’s Playhouse sh. xo
Recently, I accepted Sarah Selecky’s dare — I mean invitation — and spent a weekend with her and a handful of incredible writers at Jennifer Schramm’s winsome property in Nobleton, Ontario. Sarah Selecky is an award-winning author and astute literary coach. This woman has faith. The dare was to come Read more…