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Bill Gaston :: Writing

Bill Gaston came to the Writing Department in 1998 following a dozen years in the Maritimes, mostly at the University of New Brunswick. There he was Director of the Creative Writing Programme, and, for a time, editor of Canada's oldest literary journal, The Fiddlehead.

Gaston grew up in Winnipeg, Toronto, and North Vancouver. He has published six novels - Tall Lives, The Cameraman, Bella Combe Journal, The Good Body, Sointula, and The Order of Good Cheer— five collections of short fiction - Deep Cove Stories, North of Jesus' Beans, Sex Is Red, Mount Appetite (nominated for the 2002 Giller Prize), and Gargoyles - a "bullshit memoir," Midnight Hockey - a collection of poetry - Inviting Blindness - and a play, Yardsale. His work has been translated into several languages. His short fiction has appeared in Granta, Tin House, Best Canadian Stories, been broadcast nationally on the CBC, and in 1999 won a Canadian Literary Award for Fiction. In 2003 Bill Gaston was awarded the inaugural Timothy Findley Award, for a Canadian male writer in mid-career.

 

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Bibliography since 2000

The Order of Good Cheer   (novel)
House of Anansi, 2008

Gargoyles  (short fiction)
House of Anansi, 2006

Midnight Hockey  (memoir, non-fiction)
Doubleday, 2006

Sointula   (novel)
Raincoast, 2004

Mount Appetite  (short fiction)
Raincoast, 2002

The Good Body  (novel)
Stoddart/Random House U.S., 2000

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