Joel A. Sutherland Explained

Joel A. Sutherland
Birth Name:Joel Alexander Sutherland
Birth Date:1980 12, df=yes
Birth Place:Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:Author & Librarian
Alma Mater:York University (B.F.A.)
Aberystwyth University (M.L.I.S.)
Period:2008–present (published)
Genre:Horror
Awards:Silver Birch Award (2016 & 2017), Hackmatack Award (2015 & 2016)

Joel A. Sutherland (born 1 December 1980) is a Canadian author of thriller, horror and fantasy short stories and novels, anthologies and children's books. His notable works include Frozen Blood and the Haunted Canada series. Sutherland's writing has won the Forest of Reading Silver Birch Award and the Hackmatack Award, and been nominated for the Forest of Reading Red Maple Award, the Bram Stoker Award[1] and the Black Quill Award.[2] He lives in Courtice, Ontario.

Sutherland was born in Oakville, Ontario. He graduated with a BFA in Film & Video Production studies from York University, Toronto, in 2003 and obtained a Master of Library and Information Science degree from Aberystwyth University, Wales, in 2012. He is the Children's & Youth Services Librarian for the Georgina Public Libraries. He has also worked at the Ajax Public Library, in a hockey stick factory, at a pizza restaurant, in a bar, at a men's suit retailer and at a bookstore. He was also a member of the Governor General's Foot Guards during the summer of 2000.[3]

His first published story was "Something Fishy This Way Comes" in The Undead: Skin & Bones (Permuted Press). Frozen Blood has been said to have been inspired by theGreat Ice Storm of 1998.[4]

In October 2010, it was announced that Sutherland had been selected as a contestant for the first season of Wipeout Canada, which aired on TVtropolis in the Spring of 2011.[5] [6] He made it to the third round on the Beauties vs. Geeks episode.

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  1. Web site: Horror Writers Association - Past Stoker Award Nominees & Winners. www.horror.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20100719141024/http://www.horror.org/stokerwinnom.htm#2006 . 19 July 2010.
  2. Web site: Dark Scribe Magazine - 3rd Annual - Nominees. www.darkscribemagazine.com. 24 November 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171114093252/http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/3rd-annual-bqa-nominees/. 14 November 2017.
  3. Web site: Joel A Sutherland. www.fantasticfiction.co.uk. 24 November 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233004/http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/joel-a-sutherland/. 3 March 2016.
  4. Web site: Dark Scribe Magazine - Drawing First Blood - The Chronicles of Joel Sutherland, Act One: The Ice Storm Cometh. www.darkscribemagazine.com. 24 November 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20120303052536/http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/drawing-first-blood/the-chronicles-of-joel-sutherland-act-one-the-ice-storm-come.html. 3 March 2012.
  5. Web site: WIPEOUT CANADA CONTESTANTS REVEALED!. www.newswire.ca. 24 November 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20110221114926/http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2010/04/c7641.html. 21 February 2011.
  6. Web site: Durham Region Breaking News - Durham Region's Online Newspaper - DurhamRegion.com. DurhamRegion.com. 24 November 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20120729111953/http://www.durhamregion.com/article/166311. 29 July 2012.

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