Zsuzsi Gartner has been appointed as this year’s Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow, which includes a three-month residency in Cork and the delivery of workshops and mentorships.
The opportunity to apply for mentorships with Zsuzsi Gartner will be posted on our website and Submittable in the coming months.
Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the Giller Prize finalist fiction collection Better Living through Plastic Explosives and of the widely acclaimed story collection All the Anxious Girls on Earth. Her first novel, The Beguiling, was a finalist for the 2020 Writers Trust Fiction Prize and a Globe & Mail Best Book of 2020. Her fiction has been widely anthologized and read on the CBC and NPR and won National Magazine Awards. She was the inaugural Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow for Cork, Ireland in 2016, and ran The Writers Adventure Camp in Whistler for four years. She has been on faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts and The University of British Columbia’s MFA Program. Zsuzsi edited the award-winning fiction anthology Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow and was the guest editor of the Best Canada Stories 2026 anthology. She is completing her fourth book (third short fiction collection) and lives in Vancouver, Canada.