Eva Crocker
Eva Crocker’s All I Ask won the 2020 BMO Winterset Award. Her short story collection Barreling Forward was a National Post Best Book, shortlisted for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers, and won the Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction and the CAA Emerging Author’s Award. Her novel Back in the Land of the Living was published by House of Anansi Press in August 2023. Crocker was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQS2+ Emerging Writers in 2017. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University.
Writers & Books
Award History
2017 - Finalist
Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
Jury Citation
“Eva Crocker brings to her first collection of stories the verve and self-assurance of a literary veteran. She chronicles emotional nuance with ease and brings her characters to life with an inventive, multilayered lens that mirrors so many of today’s interpersonal relationships. Crocker’s prose enlightens readers by securing and subverting narratives and her portrayals find meaning in both the unusual and the mundane.” -- 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers Jury (Eaton Hamilton, Elio Iannacci, and Trish Salah)Juror History
Program History
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