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First Name Lucian
Last Name Childs
Member Since January 25, 2019
Email lchilds2@gmail.com
City Toronto
State ON
Country Canada
Branch Affiliation Toronto
Website www.lucianchilds.com
Twitter @lucianchilds
Instagram lucian_childs
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Bio LUCIAN CHILDS is a fiction writer whose debut, Dreaming Home (Biblioasis 2023), won the Fred Kerner Book Award and was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in literary fiction. He was a Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Short Story Award. He is a contributing editor of the Lambda Literary finalist, Building Fires in the Snow: a collection of Alaska LGBTQ short fiction and poetry. His stories and reviews have appeared in the journals Grain, The Puritan, Plenitude and Prairie Fire, among others. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, he currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.
Publications Books "Dreaming Home," Biblioasis 2023. Print "Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry," Co-Editor. University of Alaska Press, September 2016. Print. Short Stories “Napoli” – Prairie Fire, forthcoming Winter 2021 or Spring 2022. Print. “Black Spruce” – Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry, University of Alaska Press, September 2016. Print. “The Go-Between” – Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry, University of Alaska Press, September 2016. Print. “Pressure” – Flash in the Attic: 44 Very Short Stories, Fiction Attic Press, August 2016. Print. – Fiction Attic, December 2015. Web. “In Your Beautiful Country” – Grain Magazine, Issue 43.1, December 2015. Print. “Letters from his Wife Regarding the Progress of Her Enlightenment” – Jelly Bucket, Number 6, November 2015. Print. “Carbon Copies” – Prism Review, Issue 15, June 2013. Print. “The Letter” – Rougarou, An Online Literary Journal, Vol. 8, Issue 2, January 2013. Web. “Approaching Zero” – The Puritan: Frontiers of New English, Issue 18, October 2012. Web. “The Errand” – Cirque, A Literary Journal for the Pacific Rim, Vol. 3, No. 2, June 2012. Print. “A Momentary Lapse” – Sanskrit Literary Arts Magazine, Vol. 43, June 2012. Print. “Hit Me Back” – Compass Rose, Vol. XI, May 2011. Print. “Training Wheels” – Quiddity International Literary Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, April 2011. Print.
Other Memberships PEN Canada – Member, 2018 - present The Authors Guild – Member, 2016 - present 49 Alaska Writing Center – Member, 2010 - present The Writers Union of Canada - 2022 - present
Awards Fred Kerner Book Award, October 2024 Peter Taylor Fellow, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, June 2015 Rasmuson Foundation, Individual Artist Project Award, June 2013
Contests “Carbon Copies” – Winner, 2013 Fiction Award, Prism Review
Genres Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, Short Stories
Available For Readings, Presentations, Workshops, Book Club Meetings, Speaking Engagements
Services Offered Book Reviews, Editing, Manuscript Reading & Consultation