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Canadian writer
Greg Kearney
Born
Kenora ,
Ontario , Canada Occupation novelist, short story writer, playwright Nationality Canadian Period 2000s-present Notable works Pretty , The Desperates
Greg Kearney is a Canadian writer. He was a humour columnist for
Xtra! from 1999 to 2005,
[1] and published his debut short story collection Mommy Daddy Baby in 2004.
[2]
Born in
Kenora ,
Ontario ,
[3] he is based in
Toronto , where he studied theatre at
York University .
[3]
He was awarded an Honour of Distinction from the
Dayne Ogilvie Prize in 2009,
[4] and his second short story collection Pretty , published in 2011, won a
ReLit Award in the short fiction category in 2012.
[5]
His first novel, The Desperates , was published by
Cormorant Books in 2013.
[6]
He has also written several short plays for
Buddies in Bad Times ' annual Rhubarb Festival and
Theatre Passe Muraille ,
[7] including Fruits and Crosses , Margot and the Great Big Plate , The Cry Sisters , The Betty Dean Fanzine , (555) 555 5555
[8] and Cancun .
[9] Cancun appears in the
Sky Gilbert -edited anthology Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays , published by
Playwrights Canada Press in 2006, alongside plays by
Harry Rintoul ,
Shawn Postoff ,
Christian Lloyd ,
Greg MacArthur ,
Ken Brand and
Michael Achtman .
[10]
Works
References
^
"Greg Kearney bids farewell" .
Xtra! , September 14, 2005.
^ "Mommy Daffy Baby".
Quill & Quire , February 2005.
^
a
b
"Crazy wisdom" .
Xtra! , November 10, 2004.
^
"Toronto novelist wins award for emerging gay writer" .
CBC News , June 9, 2009.
^
"ReLit Awards 2012 winners announced"
Archived 2013-12-19 at the
Wayback Machine .
Quill & Quire , October 30, 2012.
^ "Self-Doubt, Self-Sabotage & No Edit Button". In Toronto , November 2013.
^
Greg Kearney
Archived 2013-08-09 at the
Wayback Machine plays listing at doollee.com.
^
"Rhubarb and Cheese, Rhubarb and Cheese, Rhubarb and Cheese…" .
Torontoist , February 2, 2005.
^
"Rhubarb Profile: Cancun" . BlogTO , February 10, 2006.
^ Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays .
Playwrights Canada Press , 2006.
ISBN
978-0887548529 .
Winners Honour of Distinction
Brian Francis ,
John Miller (2008)
Greg Kearney (2009)
Lisa Foad ,
George K. Ilsley (2010)
Dani Couture ,
Matthew J. Trafford (2011)
Mariko Tamaki (2012)
Anand Mahadevan ,
Barry Webster (2013)
Rae Spoon ,
Proma Tagore (2014)
Casey Plett ,
Vivek Shraya (2015)
Gwen Benaway ,
Jia Qing Wilson-Yang (2016)
Ali Blythe ,
Eva Crocker (2017)
Trish Salah ,
Joshua Whitehead (2018)
Joelle Barron ,
Casey Plett (2019)
Robyn Maynard ,
Smokii Sumac (2020)
Kama La Mackerel ,
jaye simpson (2021)
Bilal Baig ,
Matthew James Weigel (2022)
Gabriel Cholette ,
Amanda Cordner and
David Di Giovanni (2023)
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