Jillian Grant Shoichet
BIO
Biography

Jillian is an author and editor in Victoria, BC. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Mystery Magazine, sub-TERRAIN Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and the Toronto Journal. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, the Exeter Story Prize, and the Surrey International Writers' Conference Storyteller's Award. Her creative non-fiction has been shortlisted for the Writers Union of Canada Short Prose Competition, the PRISM International Creative Non-fiction Contest and the Tilden Canadian Literary Awards (Saturday Night Magazine and CBC Radio) and was recognized in the 2025 Fish Short Memoir Prize. She placed 1st in the Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition's genre category and 3rd in the 2024 Stockholm Writers Festival First 5 Pages Prize.

ADDRESS
City: Victoria, Province/Territory: British Columbia
EMAIL
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
"Israeli Hitchhiking Rules"
Publisher
subTERRAIN Magazine
Year
1997
Title
"A Model of Defiance: Reimagining the Comparative Analysis of Concealed Discourse in Text"
Publisher
Oral Tradition
Year
2016
Title
"Exodus"
Publisher
Mystery Magazine
Year
2023
Title
"You Get What You Get"
Publisher
Mystery Magazine
Year
2024
Title
"Good Reason"
Publisher
Writer's Digest
Year
2024
Title
"Stargazing"
Publisher
The Toronto Journal
Year
2024
Title
"The Toll"
Publisher
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Year
2025
LINKS
Links
Jillian Grant Shoichet
Shoichet Editorial
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Programs & Interests
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