Neil Smith is the author of “Bang Crunch”, a
collection of short stories.
Knopf Canada, an imprint
of Random House of Canada, will publish “Bang Crunch” in January 2007 within
its New Face of Fiction program (www.newfaceoffiction.com).
The book will also be released in the United States by Vintage and in the
United Kingdom by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
A few years ago, Neil
Smith got bored of his day job as a freelance translator, and started writing
short stories “as a lark”. He joined a writing workshop, impressed his teacher
so much with his first effort, that she encouraged him to submit it to a
literary journal. Said story ended up being nominated for the Journey Prize.
Neil Smith’s 2nd and 4th stories were also nominated for
the Journey Prize (“Green Fluorescent Protein” in 2002, “Isolettes” in 2004,
and “Scrapbook”
in 2005). Neil Smith’s story “Bang Crunch” won 1st prize in the 2004
Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Literary Contest. In addition, Neil Smith has been
published in several literary journals, such as “The Fiddlehead” (with “Bang
Crunch” in 2005), “The Anigonish Review”, “Event”, “Blood and Aphorisms”,
“Maisonneuve”, and “Headlight”. He has previously worked on a museum exhibit on
strange animal and insect mating rituals, and with the writer Joel Yanofsky in
a mentorship programme run by the Quebec Writers Federation. Neil Smith’s work
has also been published in the “Coming Attractions” anthology. Neil Smith comes
from Montreal.
Falling into Fiction
– Neil Smith is interviewed by John Custodio
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