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Alison Taylor

 

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First name
Alison
Last name
Taylor
City
Fredericton
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Biography
Originally from Hamilton, Ontario, Alison Taylor spent 20 years working as a video editor for film and television in Toronto before moving to Fredericton, New Brunswick in 2018. They have published short stories in a few literary journals, dabbled in stand-up comedy, and made a number of experimental short films that have screened at festivals internationally. Their debut novel Aftershock, published by HarperCollins Canada in 2021, received the Atlantic Book Awards First Book Award and was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Their embryonic second novel is working-titled Confessions of a Binge Drinker.
Publications
aftershock. Novel (HarperCollins Canada, August 2020)
Winner of the 2021 Atlantic Book Awards First Book Award; Shortlisted for the 2021 Rakuten Kobo First Book Award

Kenny. Short story – Broken Pencil Magazine, issue #89, Fall 2020

spud gun. Short story - Exile Literary Quarterly, volume 35.3, 2013
Genres
  • Editing
  • Fiction
  • Scriptwriting

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