George Galt
George Galt is a writer and founder of the literary press Stonehewer Books. He is the author of three books of nonfiction, one novel, and is the editor of the anthologies The Thinking Heart and The Saturday Night Traveller. Galt’s work appears in publications like The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and Literary Review of Canada, among many other newspapers and magazines. He helped establish the Woodcock Fund for writers in financial distress, has served on the Authors’ Committee and board of Writers’ Trust, and was an early member of the board of PEN Canada where he helped establish PEN Canada’s Writers-in-Prison Committee. Galt lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
Writers & Books
Award History
2026 - Finalist
Nancy Flight Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Editing
forMy Year in Fairyland: Grief, MAID and a Lifetime of Books edited by George Galt
Jury Citation
“With Sarah Ellis’ remarkable and moving My Year in Fairyland, editor George Galt faced the unique challenge of working with a highly prolific author who is also a highly reluctant memoirist. Through humour, gentle prodding, deep sympathy, and respect, Galt drew out Ellis’ remembrances of the twelve months before her wife Sherry’s medically assisted death. The deceptively slim book contains profound reflections about what it means to live and love well. Ellis’ enchanting diversions into fairy tales and mythology, her later-in-life romance and unexpected wedding, the ethics of MAID, and the lessons of grief are adroitly woven together with Galt’s delicate, steady guidance.”—2026 Nancy Flight Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Editing (Rachel Giese, Craig Pyette, Rachel Taylor)Juror History
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