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Christy Ann Conlin's debut novel, Heave, was a national bestseller and one of the Globe and Mail's top books of 2002. Her second adult novel, Listening for the Island, will be published by Doubleday. Her first YA novel, Dead Time, will be come out with Annick Press in 2011. Her fiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Best Canadian Stories. She has a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of British Columbia where she wrote and studied fiction, stage and screenplay writing. She also holds a Bachelor of Education from Acadia University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from the University of Ottawa. Her essays have appeared in numerous publications including Canadian Geographic, Geist and Chatelaine. Christy Ann is also a regular book reviewer for the Globe and Mail and is an online instructor with the University of Toronto. She lives on the North Mountain.
- Dead Time. Annick Press, January 2011.
- Listening for the Island. Doubleday Canada. Forthcoming.
- Heave. Doubleday Canada, 2002. ISBN 0-385-65807-9.
- Nominated for the 2003 Books in Canada/Amazon.com First Novel Award,the 2003 Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction and the 2003 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize.
- "This is a wildly energetic debut, alive with characters so vivid they very nearly eclipse one of the tenderest, truest depictions of Nova Scotia life and landscape I think I've ever read." - Lynn Coady.
- "Christy Ann Conlin reveals herself to be a writer of complex compassion, intuitive sense and relentless hope for the sweet losers who need it most of all." - Times-Colonists (Victoria).
- "Conlin's debut is sharp [...] Her sentences are fluid, long and bring with emotion much like Jack Kerouac's coming of age stories." - New Brunswick Reader.
- "Christy Ann Conlin's debut novel is pure Nova Scotia. This marvelous first novel [...] prompted a whelp of excitement from me." - Noah Richler, National Post.
- "Totally original, Conlin's book is like an assault on the senses, slangy, breezy, chatty, full of nostalgia and full of affection." - The London Free Press.
- "Imagine a 21st-century Catcher in the Rye, from a rural and female perspective." - The Daily News (Halifax).
- "Heave is simply a marvelous book [...] It's hard to believe this author is just beginning. I can't wait to see what she accomplishes next." - Michelle Berry, The Globe and Mail.
- Great Expectations: Twenty-Four True Stories About Childbirth. House of Anansi, Autumn 2008. ISBN 978-0-88784-778-3.
- Between Interruptions: Mothers Write About Guilt, Anxiety, Ambition, and More. Key Porter, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-1552639115.
- 04: Best Canadian Stories. Oberon Press, 2004. ISBN 0-7780-1229 8.
- Victory Meat: New Fiction From Atlantic Canada. Anchor Canada, 2003. ISBN 0-385-65892-3.
- She Writes: Love, Spaghetti and other stories. Second Story Press, 2002. ISBN 1-896764-68-1.
Shortlisted for Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, 2003.
Shortlisted for Dartmouth Book Award, 2003.
Shortlisted for Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, 2003.
Shari Meakin Bursary for Writers, Burnaby Arts Council, May, 1999.
Blood & Aphorisms Short Fiction Contest, Bedtime In Zurich, B & A Prize,1996.
Finalist, CBC New Brunswick Teleplay Competition, Taking Mother to the Sea, 1996.
The William Rhea Fellowship in Television Writing, University of British Columbia, 1996.
Atlantic Writing Competition: First Place - dramatic writing; Third Place - poetry, 1994.
