Publications

“A Supine Position,” Maisonneuve (Winter 2026)
“A Sensitive Man Drinks Yellow Flowers,” The New Quarterly (Winter 2025)
“Hotel Viviane,” The New Quarterly (Spring 2023)
“Chicken in Two Parts,” Prairie Fire (2022)
“We Are Family,” Chronicling the Days Anthology (Guernica Editions, 2021)
“The Milk’s Gone Sour,” The Link (2020)
“We Should Change the Curtains,” Soliloquies Anthology (2019)

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Awards

Writers’ Trust Rising Stars (2026)
DISQUIET Literary Fiction Contest (2025): Longlisted, “Raising James Dean”
Peter Hinchcliffe Award (2024): Honourable Mention, “A Sensitive Man Drinks Yellow Flowers”
David McKeen Award (2021/22): Winner, Quietly, Loving Everyone
QWF’s Contest For Emerging Young Writers (2019): Finalist, “We Should Change the Curtains”

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Press/Interviews

All Lit Up: Interview, “The Short of It: Curtis John McRae & Quietly, Loving Everyone”
The Toronto Star: Spotlight, “25 books to read in 2025”
The Main: Spotlight, “Montreal’s Anglo Literary Scene is More Vibrant Than It’s Been in Decades”
Weird Era Podcast: Interview, “Episode 113: Weird Era Ft. Curtis McRae”
CULT MTL: Spotlight, “3 books to read this month”

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