Susie Taylor is an art school grad and former retail worker. The year she turned 40, she quit smoking and started writing. Taylor is the author of two books, Vigil and Even Weirder Than Before. Her short stories have appeared in several literary magazines including Geist, PRISM International, The Fiddlehead, and Room Magazine. Her book Vigil was the winner of the 2024 BMO Winterset Award for Fiction and a finalist for both the Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction and The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. Even Weirder than Before won the 2015 NLCU Fresh Fish Award for emerging writers. Taylor is the associate fiction editor at Riddle Fence Magazine and lives in Harbour Grace, NL.
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Books
2024 Vigil, Breakwater Books, St. John’s, NL
2019 Even Weirder than Before, Breakwater Books, St. John’s, NL
Publications
2023 “Lemons” short story, Riddle Fence Issue no. 50, St. John’s NL
2021 “Do You Know Who I Am, B’y?”, short story, Geist Issue 118, Vancouver, BC
2020 “Vigil”, short story, PRISM International Issue No. 58.4, Vancouver, BC
2020 “Stevie Dies Twice”, short story, The Fiddlehead Issue No. 283, Fredericton, NB
2019 “After”, short story, RAWSIY II Anthology, Toronto, ON
2019 “Excerpt from even weirder than before”, novel excerpt, Geist Issue 113, Vancouver, BC
2019 “We Smoke our Smokes” short story, Geist Issue 110, Vancouver, BC
2018 “Junior Choir”, short story, Riddle Fence Issue no. 31, St. John’s NL
2018 “Malcontent”, short story, untethered Vol. 4.2, Toronto, ON
2018 “Dryden, The End of August 1995”, short story, Room Magazine Issue No. 41.1, Vancouver BC
2018 “Behind the Dumpsters”, short story, The Impressment Gang, Volume 4.0, Halifax NS
2017 “The Third Day of Spring”, poem, PULP Literature Issue no. 13, Victoria BC
2016 “That Running Girl”, short story, Riddle Fence Issue no. 25, St. John’s NL
2016 “After the Blood Test”, short story, Riddle Fence Issue no. 24, St. John’s NL
2016 “Excerpt from Dispelling the Myths”, novel excerpt, Riddle Fence Issue no. 22, St. John’s NL
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