Andrea Routley

Andrea Routley
Occupationshort story writer, magazine editor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityCanadian
Years active2010s-present

Andrea Routley is a Canadian writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] Her short story collection Jane and the Whales was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards in 2014.[2] Her short stories appear in Canadian literary magazines such as Geist and The Fiddlehead Review.[3]

She was a founder of the LGBT literary magazine Plenitude[1] and of the Sunshine Coast's (Canada) Read Out Loud LGBT reading series,[4] and was editor of the 2010 anthology Walk Myself Home: An Anthology to End Violence Against Women.[5] In 2020, her book This Unlikely Soil was shortlisted for the Malahat Review Novella Prize.[6]

During the 2022-23 winter, Routley was a writer-in-residence at the Haig-Brown House of the Campbell River Museum on Vancouver Island, where she planned to finish a new novel.[7]

  1. ^ a b "Crush worthy" Archived 2013-05-05 at the Wayback Machine. Xtra!, March 21, 2013.
  2. ^ "Lambda Literary Awards finalists announced". Bay Area Reporter, April 3, 2014.
  3. ^ "65 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in fall 2022". CBC Books. 1 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Three days of pride". Coast Reporter, June 18, 2015.
  5. ^ "Walk Myself Home". Herizons, Spring 2012.
  6. ^ Manley, Alison (2022-11-26). "This Unlikely Soil: Stories by Andrea Routley". The Miramichi Reader. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  7. ^ "Haig-Brown writer in residence hopes to reconnect with the rain forest". www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com. Vancouver Island Free Daily. 2022-12-01. Retrieved 2023-04-11.