Shelley Wood

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My fiction, creative non-fiction, columns, and travel-writing have appeared in a range of Canadian and international publications (here). I’ve won the Tethered by Letters fiction contest, the Frank McCourt prize for Creative Nonfiction, the Nonfiction prize from Causeway Lit, and the Fiction prize from Freefall Magazine.

My second novel, The Leap Year Gene, will be published by HarperCollins Canada and The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley by Union Square Press (USA) in August 2024.

The Quintland Sisters, my debut novel, was published in Canada, the United States, and internationally by William Morrow|Harper Collins|Harper360; it was one of the top 10 bestselling Canadian fiction books of 2019.

Born and raised in Vancouver, I’ve lived in Montreal
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The Quintland Sisters

3.64 avg rating — 6,184 ratings — published 2019 — 12 editions
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So few books manage to be beautiful, while telling dark stories: this one does. Sunrise Over Half-Built Houses will drag you, willingly, into some of the darkest places imaginable, but keeping you hopeful about the light--that light still exists. Par ...more
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I was lucky to read an earlier draft of this novel before it found its publisher and, back then, was wowed by the writing, the setting, and the deeply flawed but compelling characters. But the final published book? This is of another level entirely. ...more
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I loved Scott's book. I went into it slightly skeptical: I don't read a lot of speculative fiction and I mistakenly put this in this narrow bucket. Plus it is such a far-flung premise: how could he pull this off geographically and temporally? But he ...more
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