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Daniel Perry

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Daniel Perry is the author of the novella Modern Folklore (Little Ghosts Books, 2024) and the short story collections Nobody Looks That Young Here (Guernica, 2018) and Hamburger (Thistledown, 2016). His fiction has been short-listed for the Carter V. Cooper Prize, and has appeared in more than 30 publications including Joyland, The Dalhousie Review, Exile: The Literary Quarterly, SubTerrain, Riddle Fence, Little Fiction and the Stone Skin Press anthology The Lion and the Aardvark (U.K.). He has also published book reviews in The Malahat Review, The Antigonish Review and Broken Pencil. He has lived in Toronto since 2006. ...more

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Daniel Perry Hi Barbara! Thanks for your question. For me, I think the challenge that keeps me writing short stories is the negotiation between doing too much and …moreHi Barbara! Thanks for your question. For me, I think the challenge that keeps me writing short stories is the negotiation between doing too much and doing too little. I've published stories 200 words long, and a couple in the 7,500-word range, and all lengths in between as well. I love finding out just how long a story needs to be, and when I think I've found the story's length, may not fully be able to explain why it's so long, or so short--once it's right, it just feels right.(less)
Daniel Perry I've just added a last story to my next short story collection, Nobody Looks That Young Here, forthcoming from Guernica Editions in 2018; beyond that,…moreI've just added a last story to my next short story collection, Nobody Looks That Young Here, forthcoming from Guernica Editions in 2018; beyond that, I've got something of a ghost story going (it feels like a novella), and I'm mapping out a hockey novel, too.(less)
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Three Spring Things

Finally–finally!–a story I first imagined in 2017, on a bus in Andalusia while my wife napped on my shoulder, will see the light of day. It’s a long piece, meaning it’s proven a bit hard to place, but it’s finally been accepted by a magazine I’ve wanted to publish with for a literal decade (longer, actually) and has been in edits for a few weeks now. I’m really looking forward to sharing the ultim

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