Jill Y. Goldberg

 

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Hello, Bonjour!

I’m a writer and an instructor of literature and creative writing (fiction, screenwriting, and non-fiction) at Langara College in Vancouver, BC on unceded Coast Salish Territories. I moved here from Montréal, got myself an MFA in creative writing at UBC, and remain skeptical of all this rain. Umbrella please!

 
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You’ll find my writing in the Globe and Mail, SubTerrain, Room Magazine, the London Reader, among others, and in a very short film that travelled to festivals in North America and across Europe. Though I’m not normally a poet, I once won the Tethered by Letters Poetry Prize, and a selection from my novel, After We Drowned (Anvil Press, 2024), was the third-place finalist in the Masters Review novel excerpt contest (May 2023). My novel was also a semi-finalist for Autumn House Press’ Full-Length Fiction Prize, shortlisted for YesYes Books Open Reading Period, and was longlisted for the Disquiet Literary Contest. I’m half of a tango-dancing pair, a half-decent photographer, and a very occasional half-marathoner. I am represented by Carolyn Forde at the Transatlantic Agency.

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 BOOKS

After We Drowned - a coming-of-age/environmental cataclysm novel will be published by Anvil Press in 2024. 

 As co-author on this book, I’m delighted to announce that The Fire Still Burns - Squamish Elder Sam George's memoir of his time at St. Paul's Indian Residential School and navigating his way through its aftermath - is on the BC Bestsellers Top 20 of 2023 List.

My essay “On Magnolias During End Times” is featured in Chronicling the Days (Guernica Editions), a book of first-person dispatches from the earliest days of the pandemic.

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My essay “Death’s Long Embrace” is one of many pieces exploring near-death experiences in Against Death: 30 Essays on Living (Anvil Press, runner-up in the Eric Hoffer Short Story/Anthology Prize, finalist for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize, and finalist for the Montaigne Medal).

"Taxi", one of my earliest short stories, about a girl born in a Taxi during a blizzard in Montréal, is part of this collection of short works: Writing in the CEGEPs, (Siren Song Press).

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In the Media: The Fire Still Burns

 
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NEWS

Sam George and I will be at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts in August of 2024

February 2024: Thank you BC Arts Council for the 2nd Individual Arts Award for research on my 2nd novel!

My novel, After We Drowned, will be published by Anvil Press in 2024.

My short story “Super Flower Blood Moon” is in Room Magazine’s Fever Dream issue (46.4).

May 2023: An excerpt of After We Drowned is the third-place finalist for the Master’s Review novel excerpt contest.

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WHAT’S YOUR STORY?

TELL ME YOURS, I’LL TELL YOU MINE.

 
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