Andrea Routley

Andrea Routley
Occupation	short story writer, magazine editor
Language	English
Nationality	Canadian
Years active	2010s-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]

References

1. "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.