Sarah Selecky

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Sarah Selecky
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BornSeptember 17, 1974
Hanmer, Ontario, Canada
OccupationWriter, entrepreneur (Story Is A State of Mind) [1]
Alma mater Trent University
Notable works This Cake Is for the Party
Website
www.sarahselecky.com

Sarah Selecky (born 17 September 1974) is a Canadian writer. [2] Her debut short story collection This Cake Is for the Party was a shortlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize [3] and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award [4] in 2010.

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Raised in the Hanmer area of Greater Sudbury, [5] she graduated from Trent University. She attended the University of Victoria's undergraduate writing program briefly before returning to Toronto to pursue her writing career. While living in Toronto, she completed the University of British Columbia's Optional-Residency MFA in Creative Writing. She published short stories in The Walrus , Geist , The Journey Prize Anthology , The New Quarterly and Prairie Fire before publishing This Cake Is for the Party in early 2010.

Selecky launched an online writing instruction course, Story Is a State of Mind, in 2011. [1] She also runs an online creative writing program called Sarah Selecky Writing School. [6] The school hosts an annual writing competition, Little Bird Writing Contest, with winners published in an anthology, Little Bird Stories, each year. [7] Editors of the anthology have included Cherie Dimaline, Esi Edugyan, Zsuzsi Gartner and Lisa Moore.

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  1. 1 2 "Story Is a State of Mind".
  2. "Sarah Selecky - The Canadian Encyclopedia" . Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  3. "Rachman, Bergen, Urquhart and Coupland on Giller long list". The Globe and Mail , September 20, 2010.
  4. Frank O'Connor Short Story Award Longlist.
  5. "Telling stories from the north" Archived September 7, 2012, at archive.today . Northern Life , August 14, 2010.
  6. "Sarah Selecky Writing School". www.sarahseleckywritingschool.com. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
  7. "Good things come in small packages with the short stories of Little Bird Writing Contest". The Globe and Mail. July 30, 2019. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
  8. "Review: This Cake is for the Party, by Sarah Selecky". The Globe and Mail. June 11, 2010. Retrieved September 23, 2019.