Trish Sissons is a PNW-Born Writer Currently based in Ireland.
Her work has appeared in The New Quarterly and The Clackamas Literary Review. Trish’s 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.
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, Toronto, and Dublin. 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.
Selected Writing
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"Rushing the Landing"The New Quarterly (2024)
“To Our Fault” Clackamas Literary Review (2024)
“Broad Strokes and Sunk Costs” Fiddlehead Fiction Contest finalist (2023)
“This’ll Only Hurt for a Moment” Penguin Random House Student Award for Fiction finalist (2020)
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"Trish Sissons' Writing Space" The New Quarterly (2024)
“Finding the Form with Trish Sissons” The New Quarterly (2024)
“What’s Trish Sissons reading?” The New Quarterly (2024)
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