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Chris Bailey

 

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First name
Chris
Last name
Bailey
 

ABOUT

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Biography
Chris Bailey is a graphic designer, writer, and commercial fisherman from Prince Edward Island. He holds a MFA Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Chris’ writing has appeared in Grain, Brick, The Fiddlehead, Best Canadian Stories 2021 and 2025, and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection, What Your Hands Have Done, is available from Nightwood Editions. His piece, Fisherman’s Repose, was a winner of the 2022 BMO 1stArt! Award. His second book, Forecast: Pretty Bleak is out now with McClelland & Stewart.
 

PUBLICATIONS AND RECOGNITION

Books and other publications
2025
Forecast: Pretty Bleak (poetry collection forthcoming from McClelland & Stewart in March 2025)

2024
Short Fiction: Best Canadian Short Stories 2025 (Biblioasis), “We’ve Cherished Nothing”

2024
Poetry: The Buzz “Love Letter Written in a PEI Spring”

2024
Poetry: OOPAT press pamphlet “All This Is”

2023
Short Fiction: Brick 112, “We’ve Cherished Nothing”

2023
Nonfiction: Brick 111, “A Hard Year for Birds”

2021
Short Fiction: Best Canadian Short Stories 2021 (Biblioasis), “What Would You Do?”

2021
Poetry: The BUZZ “Crow Piss: A Pantoum”

2021
Poetry: The Antigonish Review “Dirt”

2020
Poetry: “The Heart is a Knot” in Watch Your Head anthology (Coach House Books)

2020
Poetry: The Fiddlehead No. 285 “Cutting Bait”, “This Word”

2020
Short Fiction: The Fiddlehead No. 283 “What Would You Do?”

2019
Nonfiction: Edizoni Black Coffee-Italian translation of “Nothing but Water”(November)

2019
Poetry, THE BUZZ, “How Could You Forget This?”

2018
Nonfiction: The Town Crier “Dirt Under the Nail”

2018
Nonfiction: Brick (November issue) “Nothing But Water”

2018
Short fiction: FreeFall (fall) “Elmira, PEI”

2018
Poetry: Grain Magazine (fall) “The Right Ones Aren’t Talking”

2018
What Your Hands Have Done: Poems (Poetry Collection, Nightwood Editions)

2016
gritLIT Anthology How Exhilarating and How Close

2016
Book Review: The Town Crier “Chris Reads Green Gables”
Awards and other achievements
2020
Shortlist, PEI Book Awards, What Your Hands Have Done (Poetry)

2019
Shortlist, ReLit Awards, What Your Hands Have Done (Poetry)

2016
Winner, gritLIT poetry contest

2016
Shortlist, gritLIT short fiction contest

2015
Winner, Cox & Palmer Island Literary Award, Creative Non-fiction

2015
Winner, Milton Acorn Award for Poetry
Poetic forms and styles
  • Long poem
  • Print poetry
  • Sonnet
  • Tanka
Other writing expertise
  • Academic writing
  • Creative non-fiction
  • Illustration
  • Literary fiction
  • Reviews
  • Short stories
Additional writing experience
Lyric poetry, Narrative poetry, observational
Translations
2019
Nonfiction: Edizoni Black Coffee-Italian translation of “Nothing but Water”(November)
 

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  • Poetry manuscript editing
  • Individual poem editing
  • Fiction editing
  • Non-fiction editing
  • One-on-one mentoring
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