George K. Ilsley

George K. Ilsley (born 1958) is a Canadian writer.[1] He has published a collection of short stories, Random Acts of Hatred, which focuses on the lives of gay and bisexual men from childhood to early adulthood,[2] and a novel, ManBug.[3] His new memoir is The Home Stretch: A Father, a Son, and All the Things They Never Talk About (2020, Arsenal Pulp Press).

Originally from the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia,[4] he has since been based in Vancouver, British Columbia.[5] Prior to launching his career as a writer, he studied law, but decided not to become a lawyer.[6] His writing has also appeared in the anthologies Queeries, Contra/Diction and First Person Queer, and in the literary magazines The Church-Wellesley Review, Event, Prairie Fire and Plenitude.[5]

ManBug was a shortlisted finalist for the ReLit Award for Fiction in 2007. Ilsley was awarded an Honour of Distinction citation by the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Grant in 2010,[7] and his 2014 piece "Bingo and Black Ice" won subTerrain magazine's Lush Triumphant Award for creative non-fiction in 2014.[5]

References

  1. ^ "But there are second acts in CanLit". The Globe and Mail, August 26, 2006.
  2. ^ Basilières, Michel (16 October 2003). "Random Acts of Hatred (book review)". Quill & Quire. Retrieved 2008-02-14.
  3. ^ "Insects and love's complexities" Archived 2011-05-26 at the Wayback Machine, Xtra! West, March 30, 2006.
  4. ^ "About an author writing much closer to the bone". Whitehorse Star, December 21, 2007.
  5. ^ a b c "George Ilsley, Vancouver". Plenitude, October 21, 2015.
  6. ^ "Author suffered from withdrawal symptom". Whitehorse Star, January 23, 2008.
  7. ^ "Nancy Jo Cullen wins Dayne Ogilvie Grant" Archived 2013-01-29 at archive.today. National Post, May 19, 2010.


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