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Fiction Literary

Buying Cigarettes for the Dog

by (author) Stuart Ross

Publisher
Freehand Books
Initial publish date
Apr 2009
Category
Literary, Short Stories (single author), Urban Life
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551118796
    Publish Date
    Apr 2009
    List Price
    $19.95

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About the author

Stuart Ross published his first literary pamphlet on the photocopier in his dad’s office one night in 1979. Through the 1980s, he stood on Toronto’s Yonge Street wearing signs like “Writer Going To Hell,” selling over 7,000 poetry and fiction chapbooks. A long-time literary press activist, he is a founding member of the Meet the Presses collective, Editor at Mansfield Press, and for eight years was Fiction & Poetry Editor at This Magazine. He is the author of two collaborative novels, two story collections, seven poetry books, and the novel Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew, which co-won the 2012 Mona Elaine Adilman Award for Fiction on a Jewish Theme. He has also published a collection of essays, Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer, and co-edited the anthology Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Holiday Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament. Buying Cigarettes for the Dog won the 2010 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. His most recent poetry book is You Exist. Details Follow. He lives in Cobourg, Ontario.

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Awards

  • Short-listed, Alberta Readers's Choice Award
  • Short-listed, Alberta Trade Fiction Book of the Year
  • Winner, ReLit Award for Short Fiction

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