Pamela Dillon
BIO
Biography


PAMELA DILLON is a writer and poet. A graduate of creative writing from the University of Toronto, Pamela’s short story, We Come and We Go and her novel excerpt, As Good as Any Other won top ten placements in the 2013 and 2015 Penguin Random House of Canada Student Award for Fiction, through UofT School of Continuing Studies.


Pamela's publications can be found on literary websites, in the Globe and Mail, and other print journals. Her poem, She Went to Dance was a finalist in the Don’t Talk to Me about Love magazine's inaugural poetry contest in 2016. In 2017, the same journal published Pamela’s poems: The Winter Morning (With apologies to Mary Oliver), and The Practice of Love.


Pamela's short story, Murmuration was long-listed for the 2019 Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction Contest and was later published in the spring 2020 edition of The New Quarterly.


Pamela won the Humber Literary Review’s 2020 Emerging Writer contest for Short Fiction with an excerpt from her novel in progress, Harvest. 

Most recently, her poem Seeking the Return of My Daughter at Any Price was published in ROOM magazine - issue 44.2. Her poem, When Love Drifts was published in the December 2022 issue of the Atlanta Review.

Pamela is currently at work on a collection of short stories, and her next poem. 

 

ADDRESS
City: , Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Sufficiently Made
Publisher
The Tin Roof
Year
2014
Title
My Moment of Truth
Publisher
The Globe and Mail
Year
2015
Title
A Celtic Peace From a Mystic Hill in Somerset
Publisher
The Globe and Mail
Year
2015
Title
Secret Business
Publisher
Oasis Journal
Year
2016
Title
She Went to Dance
Publisher
Don't talk to me about love
Year
2016
Title
The Practice of Love
Publisher
Don't talk to me about love
Year
2016
Title
Seeking The Return of My Daughter at Any Price
Publisher
ROOM magazine
Year
2021
Title
If You Know a Veteran, Say Thank You For All of Us
Publisher
The Globe and Mail
Year
2016
Title
Murmuration
Publisher
The New Quarterly
Year
2019
Title
Harvest
Publisher
The Humber Literary Review
Year
2020
Title
When Love Drifts
Publisher
The Atlanta Review
Year
2022
AWARDS
Awards
Name
The Humber Literary Review's Emerging Writers Fiction Contest
Publication
The Humber Literary Review
Year
2020
Programs & Interests
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