Trish is a PNW-born writer currently based in Dublin.

Her short story BROAD STROKES AND SUNK COSTS was a finalist for the Fiddlehead’s 2023 Fiction Contest, and her excerpt, THIS’LL ONLY HURT FOR A MOMENT was a top ten finalist for the 2020 Penguin Random House Student Award for Fiction. Her work has also appeared in The New Quarterly and The Clackamas Literary Review.

A graduate of the Simon Fraser University School of Communication and an occasional student at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies’ Creative Writing program, Trish has studied and worked in Vancouver, Guadalajara, Melbourne, and Toronto. She was born and raised in the Bella Coola valley, in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest on the west coast of Canada.

She has also been known to farm on occasion.

 
 
Trish Sissons
 

Oh god, not another newsletter.

It’s true. I write a small, semi-frequent newsletter celebrating very niche Canadiana, the bizarre things I hear out in the wild, and the places where you can read words that I’ve written. Christopher Coe once said, unprompted, that it’s the only newsletter he actually reads. So, there’s that.

 

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