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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

Avalanche

by (author) Jessica Westhead

Publisher
Invisible Publishing
Initial publish date
Sep 2023
Category
Short Stories (single author), Literary, 21st Century
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781778430268
    Publish Date
    Sep 2023
    List Price
    $22.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781778430275
    Publish Date
    Sep 2023
    List Price
    $9.99

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Jessica Westhead's short stories have appeared in major literary magazines including Hazlitt, Five Dials, Room, Maisonneuve, Matrix, Geist, The New Quarterly, and Indiana Review. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards, selected for a Journey Prize anthology, and nominated for a National Magazine Award. Her chapbook Those Girls was published by Greenboathouse Books in 2006. Her novel Pulpy & Midge, published by Coach House Books in 2007, was nominated for a ReLit Award. Her critically acclaimed short story collection And Also Sharks, published by Cormorant Books in 2011, was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, a nominee for the CBC Bookie Awards and a ReLit Award, one of Kobo's Best Ebooks of 2011, and a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Short Fiction Prize. CBC Books has called her one of the "10 Canadian women writers you need to read now." Jessica lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.

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