10-05-2025
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- Winnipeg Free Press
On the night table: Conor Kerr
Conor Kerr
Author, Prairie Edge
I work teaching creative writing at the University of Alberta, and I'm in the middle of wrapping up our workshops for undergraduate short fiction. So I've been reading a lot of undergraduate short stories — some are incredible. I also just finished the judging for the CBC short story contest, so I've been going through the long list of those stories as well — it was really fun to see what was brought forward throughout Canada. So my reading has been pretty short story heavy for the last couple of months.
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Conor Kerr
When I'm in the process of trying to build out a new novel, which I finished up back in January, I tend to not read as much, and to just try to centre myself within the story that I'm creating. I find I can't find my focus to the same extent.
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But prior to that, one of the cool books I read was Big Chief by Jon Hickey, which just came out, as well as I think my favorite book of poetry ever, which is Xanax Cowboy by Winnipeg's Hannah Green. I try to give everyone that book. I've probably given away eight copies. I also read Kyle Edwards' Small Ceremonies; it was one of my favorite books I've read in the last little bit. Oh, and I really enjoyed Coexistence, Billy-Ray Belcourt's new book of short stories.
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