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2023 gritLIT Short Story Contest
About the Judge
January Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from Six Nations of the Grand River. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1963 and raised in southern Ontario. January traveled throughout 2017–2019 doing back-to-back residencies in Vancouver, BC, Santa Fe, NM and Edmonton, AB. Janet lives on Six Nations of the Grand River territory where she owns and operates Ojistoh Publishing and Productions. January works in page poetry, spoken word, performance poetry, video poetry and recorded poetry with music. She is a radio broadcaster, media producer and sound artist. Her literary titles include: Splitting the Heart, (Ekstasis Editions, 2007), Red Erotic (Ojistah Publishing, 2010), Unearthed (Leaf Press, 2011), Peace in Duress (Talonbooks, 2014), Totem Poles and Railroads (ARP Books, 2016), As Long As the Sun Shines (English edition) (Bookland Press, 2018) with a Mohawk language edition released in 2019 and French translation released in 2021. Ego of a Nation is January’s seventh poetry title, which she independently produced on the Ojistoh Publishing label in 2020.
January has produced and written gallery and broadcast media with 2Ro Media since 2015. She won the American Indian Film Festival BEST MUSIC VIDEO 2020 with “Ego of a Nation” and the imagineNATIVE Media BEST EXPERIMENTAL SOUND PRIZE 2021 for her sound piece, “The Struggle Within.” She wrote and produced a comedy audio pilot titled “NDNS on the Airwaves” and she wrote, produced and directed a 10-episode web series of the same name found here.
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2022 gritLIT Short Story Contest
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Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, musician, and multidisciplinary artist and has published 26 books of fiction, poetry and numerous chapbooks. His latest books include a new novel, Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy which won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for fiction, and the poetry collections, Bird Arsonist (with Tom Prime) and The Fabulous Op (with Gregory Betts). His national bestselling novel Yiddish for Pirates won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award, was a finalist for both the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was longlisted for Canada Reads. He has taught and been writer-in-residence at many universities, colleges, and libraries. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario and at garybarwin.com.
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2022 Spring gritLIT Flash Fiction Contests
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Jenny Heijun Wills is the author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related: A Memoir, which won the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust prize for non-fiction. Jenny was born in Seoul, South Korea and was adopted and raised in a white family in Southern-Ontario, Canada. In 2008 she reunited with her family in Asia. She’s lived, studied, and worked in Toronto, Montreal, Boston, and Seoul and holds a PhD in English Literary Studies. She currently teaches writing at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba, and she is working on her next book, a novel.
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2021 Spring gritLIT Flash Fiction Contest
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2021 Fall Flash Fiction Contests
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About The 2020 Judge
Casey Plett is the author of the novel Little Fish (Arsenal Pulp Press) and the short story collection A Safe Girl to Love (Topside Press), and co-editor of the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (Topside Press). She wrote a column on transitioning for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Maclean’s, The Walrus, Plenitude, the Winnipeg Free Press, and other publications. She is the winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction and received an Honour of Distinction from The Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. She lives in Windsor, Ontario.
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