Michelle Butler Hallett
BIO
Biography

Michelle Butler Hallett is a disabled person and history nerd who writes fiction about violence, evil, love, and grace. Novels: Constant Nobody, winner of the 2022 Thomas Raddall Award for Atlantic Fiction, This Marlowe, deluded your sailors, Sky Waves, and Double-blind. Story collection: The shadow side of grace.  Anthologized short stories in The Vagrant Revue of New Fiction, Hard Ol' Spot, Running the Whale's Back, Everything Is So Political, and Best American Mystery Stories 2014. Essay "You're Not 'Disabled' Disabled" in Land of Many Shores. 

PLEASE NOTE: surname is Butler Hallett, no hyphen, to file under B, not H. Don't give me that old-fashioned patriarchal crap about filing under the last-last name, a rule which dates from a time when those in power could not conceive of a woman being in charge of her own surname. It's Butler Hallett, no hyphen, under B. Thanks. 

ADDRESS
City: St. John's, Province/Territory: Newfoundland and Labrador
EMAIL
GENRE
Literary-historical fiction. I write genre hybrids -- whatever I need to serve my story.
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Constant Nobody
Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Year
2021
Title
This Marlowe
Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Year
2016
Title
deluded your sailors
Publisher
Killick Press (now owned by Breakwater Books)
Year
2011
Title
Sky Waves
Publisher
Killick Press (now owned by Breakwater Books)
Year
2008
Title
Double-blind
Publisher
Killick Press (now owned by Breakwater Books)
Year
2007
Title
The shadow side of grace
Publisher
Killick Press (now owned by Breakwater Books)
Year
2006
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
Publication
Constant Nobody, novel, 2021, Goose Lane Editions
Year
2022
LINKS
Links
https://michellebutlerhallett.ca
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
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Living with a disability
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