Kris
Bertin
Kris Bertin is a writer whose first collection of short fiction, Bad Things Happen, won the 2016 Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the ReLit Award for Short Fiction. His follow-up, Use Your Imagination! was published in 2019. He is also the co-author of the graphic novel series Hobtown Mystery Stories with illustrator Alexander Forbes. Bertin lives in Halifax.
Juror History
- Awards
- Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
- Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
- Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
- Weston International Award
- Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
- Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
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