Sarah Selecky (born 17 September 1974) is a

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writer. Her debut short story collection '' This Cake Is for the Party'' was a shortlisted nominee for the

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and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award in 2010. Raised in the Hanmer area of Greater Sudbury, she graduated from

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. She attended the

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's undergraduate writing program briefly before returning to

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to pursue her writing career. While living in Toronto, she completed the

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's Optional-Residency MFA in Creative Writing. She published short stories in ''

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'', '' Geist'', '' The Journey Prize Anthology'', '' The New Quarterly'' and '' Prairie Fire'' before publishing ''This Cake Is for the Party'' in early 2010. Selecky launched an online writing instruction course, Story Is a State of Mind, in 2011. She also runs an online creative writing program called Sarah Selecky Writing School. The school hosts an annual writing competition, Little Bird Writing Contest, with winners published in an anthology, ''Little Bird Stories'', each year. Editors of the anthology have included Cherie Dimaline,

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and Lisa Moore.

Books

* ''This Cake is for the Party: Stories.'' Thomas Allen Publishers, 2010 * ''Radiant Shimmering Light.''

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, 2018

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Sarah Selecky
1974 births Writers from Greater Sudbury Living people Canadian women short story writers 21st-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian women writers {{Canada-writer-stub