Announcements
- Ontario Arts Council: thank you!2025 has been pretty rough so far – but the sun came out the day I received this generous support from #OntarioArtsCouncil for a new work-in-progress. Thank you for generously supporting a new work-in-progress that calls for dedicated time and focus. Hear ye, hear ye, let the writing commence!
- STOOP CITY wins ReLit Award for Fiction 2021!Thank you, ReLit Awards, for honouring STOOP CITY in the category of short fiction, 2021. I’m utterly entranced by the prize … the coveted ReLit ring designed by Christopher Kearney of Newfoundland. Each of the four moveable dials are struck with the entire alphabet, so I will be spelling out… Read more: STOOP CITY wins ReLit Award for Fiction 2021!
- Ontario Arts Council Supports Working ArtistsHeartfelt thanks to www.arts.on.ca , its hardworking staff, the jury members and readers at independent Ontario based publishers. I’m pleased and humbled to acknowledge OAC funding from the Recommender Grants for Writers Project as well as the Literary Creation Projects. This encouragement will help me take a little time away… Read more: Ontario Arts Council Supports Working Artists
Reviews
- Books to Disrupt Patriarchal AuthorityIn the spirit of 2025, check out this mini review of my five favourite books where female protagonists disrupt patriarchal authority. These five books connect to the themes driving a lot of my own creative work, especially bunker-horror novel Tarry This Night (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017). If you haven’t read… Read more: Books to Disrupt Patriarchal Authority
- Prairie Fire Review of Stoop CityThank you to Lucian Childs and Prairie Fire Magazine for the kind review of Stoop City. Check it out right here! https://www.prairiefire.ca/stoop-city-by-kristyn-dunnion/
- That Shakespearean Rag Reviews “Adoro Te Devote” from Stoop CityThe eloquent and brainy Steven Beattie reviews “Adoro Te Devote” from the Stoop City collection. I say ‘reviews’ but really this piece is more thoughtful than most book reviews; it’s a deeper dive into the story’s exploration of Faith and the Sacred. Let’s just say that Steven Beattie GETS IT.… Read more: That Shakespearean Rag Reviews “Adoro Te Devote” from Stoop City
Interviews
- Season of the WitchThank you to Dr. Cyndi Brannen of the Keeping Her Keys podcast for including me in a panel discussing Hekate and Spirits: Poltergeists, Departed Loved Ones and Ancestors. We talk about ancestor veneration, intergenerational healing and safe navigation of the Spirit World. Also, in the Samhain Special: Modern Hekatean Witchcraft,… Read more: Season of the Witch
- River Volta Review of BooksThank you to Gunnar Ohberg, MFA Candidate at the University of Saskatchewan, for interviewing me in River Volta Review of Books. Check it out here ….. https://rivervoltareview.com/category/interviews
- All Lit Up: Tell us a little about your book and how it came to beKristyn 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.