December 2021
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About Michelle
Michelle Butler Hallett, she/her, is an aspiring screenwriter, award-winning novelist, history nerd, and disabled person who writes about violence, evil, love, and grace in layered, character-driven and intricate plots. The Toronto Star describes her work as "perfectly paced and gracefully wrought," while Quill and Quire calls it "complex, lyrical, and with a profound sense of a world long passed." Her short stories are widely anthologized in Hard Ol’ Spot, The Vagrant Revue of New Fiction, Everything Is So Political, Running the Whale’s Back, and Best American Mystery Stories, and her essay "You’re Not ‘Disabled’ Disabled" appears in Land of Many Shores. Her 2021 novel, Constant Nobody, won the Thomas Raddall Prize; her 2016 novel, This Marlowe, was longlisted for the ReLit Award and the Dublin International Literary Awards; and her first novel, Double-blind, was shortlisted for the 2008 Sunburst Award.
Butler Hallett lives in St John's, Canada.
Unique traits: Writes distinctive, intelligent, and darkly funny historical fiction and drama with complex characters entangled with one another in tangly plots. Themes include evil, power, love, and grace.
Badges
Awards
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Thomas Raddall Award for Atlantic Fiction
(2022)
Education
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Humber School for Writers
(2002-2003)
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