Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
We Are All About Wendy Now
- Publisher
- Cormorant Books
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2012
- Category
- Short Stories (single author)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770861442
- Publish Date
- Jun 2012
- List Price
- $1.99
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Description
The office cat lady reluctantly joins her fellow employees’ crusade to cheer up their dying co-worker.
About the author
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.
