Fawn Parker Explained

Fawn Parker is a Canadian writer.[1]

Career

Parker's novel What We Both Know was longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize.[2] Parker's essay "The Prescription" appeared in Maisonneuve Magazine and was a finalist for the 2023 National Magazine Awards.[3] In 2020, her short story "FEED MACHINE" was nominated for the Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.[4] Her poem "Woof" has been shortlisted for a 2024 National Magazine Award.[5]

Parker holds an MA in creative writing from the University of Toronto and is studying at the University of New Brunswick to obtain her Ph.D.[6] Her published works include the short story collection Looking Good and Having a Good Time (2015), the poetry collection Weak Spot (2018), the novels Set-Point (ARP 2019)[7] and Dumb-Show (ARP 2021), her novel What We Both Know (McClelland & Stewart, 2022), and the poetry collection Soft Inheritance (Palimpsest 2023)[8] which won both a 2024 New Brunswick Book Award[9] and a 2024 Atlantic Book Award.[10]

Her novel Hi, it's me[11] is forthcoming with McClelland & Stewart in 2024.

Parker is the incoming 2024-2026 Poet Laureate of the City of Fredricton, New Brunswick.[12]

Awards

!Year!Work!Prize!Result!Ref
2020"Feed Machine"Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey PrizeShortlist
2022What We Both KnowScotiabank Giller PrizeLonglist
2023"The Prescription"National Magazine AwardShortlist
2024Soft InheritanceNew Brunswick Book Awards Fiddlehead Poetry PrizeWon
2024Soft InheritanceAtlantic Book Awards JM Abraham Poetry PrizeWon
2024"Woof"National Magazine AwardShortlist

Bibliography

Novels

Short Stories

Essays

Poetry

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Siddiqui . Tabassum . July 11, 2022 . Fawn Parker wrestles with the complexity of memory and trauma in the novel What We Both Know . November 9, 2022 . CBC Books.
  2. Web site: September 6, 2022 . 14 Canadian authors longlisted for $100K Scotiabank Giller Prize . November 9, 2022 . CBC Books.
  3. Web site: 2023-05-02 . And the Nominees Are… . 2023-05-02 . National Magazine Awards . en-CA.
  4. Web site: Books . CBC . 12 August 2020 . 13 emerging Canadian writers make 2020 longlist for $10K Journey Prize for short fiction . 8 May 2023 . CBC.
  5. Web site: 2024-05-02 . 2024 Nominees . 2024-05-03 . National Magazine Awards . en-CA.
  6. Web site: July 28, 2022 . The CBC Books Writers to Watch list: 30 Canadian writers on the rise in 2022 . November 9, 2022 . CBC Books.
  7. Web site: Cooper . Page . Paige Cooper . November 3, 2019 . Gains & Losses: A review of Set-Point by Fawn Parker . November 9, 2022 . Montreal Review of Books.
  8. Web site: Soft Inheritance . 2023-04-22 . Goodreads . en.
  9. Web site: June 3, 2024 . Winners of the 2024 New Brunswick Book Awards announced . June 3, 2024 . Quill & Quire.
  10. Web site: Drudi . Cassandra . 2024-06-06 . Michelle Porter, Jack Wong among Atlantic Book Award winners . 2024-06-07 . Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews . en.
  11. Web site: Canadian English Rights to Fawn Parker's HI, IT'S ME . 2023-04-22 . CookeMcDermid . 9 September 2022 . en-US.
  12. Web site: 2024-07-24 . ‘It starts as a passion’: City announces Fredericton’s 4th poet laureate . 2024-07-24 . City of Fredericton . en.
  13. Web site: Parker . Fawn . 2022-12-16 . The Prescription . 2024-06-16 . Maisonneuve . en.

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