Susie Taylor is a queer writer who lives in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador. Her debut novel, even weirder than before was published in 2019 by Breakwater Books. An unpublished version of this novel won the 2015 NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers. Taylor has received three Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards for her writing and was awarded the 2018 Lawrence Jackson Award by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, for the unpublished manuscript Waking Ruby. Her story “Vigil” won second runner-up in the 2020 PRISM International Jacob Zilber Award for Short Fiction. Two of Taylor’s short stories were shortlisted in the 2017 Room Magazine Fiction Contest (Room Magazine), and “Dryden, The End of August 1995” won second prize. “That Running Girl” won the 2016 Leaside Fiction Prize (Riddle Fence). Her work has appeared in Geist, PULP literature, Riddle Fence, Room Magazine, The Impressment Gang, and untethered.
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Books
2019 even weirder than before, Breakwater Books, St. John’s, NL
Publications
2020 (forthcoming) “Stevie Dies Twice”, short story, The Fiddlehead, 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
Awards and Grants
2020 PRISM International Jacob Zilber Award for Short Fiction, 2nd Runner Up, for the short story “Vigil”
2019 Research and Create Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2019 Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award, Short Fiction, for the story “Things I Miss #12” (NL Department of Tourism, Culture, Industry and Innovation)
2018 Research and Create Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2018 Leaside Fiction Prize honourable mention, for the short story “Junior Choir” (Riddle Fence)
2018 The Writers’ Union of Canada 25th Annual Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers finalist, for the story “Things I Miss # 12”
2018, Professional Project Grant (Emerging) Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council
2018 Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award, Nonfiction, for the piece, “An Inconvenient Heart” (NL Department of Tourism, Culture, Industry and Innovation)
2017 Room Magazine Fiction Contest second prize, for the story “Dryden, The End of August 1995” (Room Magazine)
2017 Room Magazine Fiction Contest Shortlist, for the story “Malcontent” (Room Magazine)
2017 Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award, Short Fiction, for the story “At the Cemetery” (NL Department of Tourism, Culture, Industry and Innovation)
2016 Leaside Fiction Prize, for the short story “That Running Girl” (Riddle Fence)
2016 Budge Wilson Short Story Prize Shortlist, for the short story “Recognition” (Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia)
2016 Magpie Award for Poetry Shortlist, for the poem, “The Third Day of Spring” (PULP Literature)
2015 NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers for the manuscript, Dispelling the Myths (Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador)
Readings
2018 Riddle Fence Issue no. 31 Launch, St. John’s NL
2017 Sparks Literary Festival, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s NL
2016 Riddle Fence Issue no. 24 Launch, St. John’s NL
2016 WANL Spring Tides Reading Series, Bonavista NL (Canada Council funded)
2016 Lawnya Vawnya Exposition of Art and Culture, St. John’s NL
2015 Riddle Fence Issue no. 22 Launch, St. John’s NL
2015 WANL NLCU Fresh Fish Award Readings, St. John’s NL
Education
2001 Open Studio Programme Toronto School of Art, Toronto ON
2000 B.A. in Fine Arts University of Guelph, Guelph ON
