Holley Rubinsky

PUBLICATIONS

Beyond This Point, McClelland & Stewart, 2006.

At First I Hope for Rescue, Knopf Canada, 1997; Picador (USA), 1998.

Rapid Transits and Other Stories, Polestar Press, 1990.

Stories anthologized in The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women,Macmillan Anthology 1, Frictions II: Stories by Women and The Journey Prize Anthology. Stories published in numerous Canadian journals, including "Borders", "The Malahat Review", "Prism international", "Event", "Prairie Fire.

Co-publisher of Butcher, Baker, The Faces of Kaslo, BLT Press, 1994.

Contributor to "The Brick Reader", 1991. Interview with Alistair MacLeod.

Copy editor for The Event Horizon: Essays on Hope, Sexuality, Social Space and Media(tion)in Art, Coach House Press & Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, 1987.

Short stories and other writing published in "Redbook," "McCalls," "Cosmopolitan," 1967-1975.

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Producer and host of The Writers' Show, CJLY. 2006-

Adjudicator for various Canadian literary awards, 1998-2003.

Adjudicator for the $10,000 McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize (1997).

Instructor at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, “Writing for Publication,” 1988-91.

Instructor in Writing I at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, 1986-87.

Coordinator for the Banff Publishing Workshop, Banff School of Fine Arts, 1985-86.

Editorial Board member, Descant, Toronto, 1987-1989.

EDUCATION

M.Ed., University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 1973.

B.A. Motion Pictures, UCLA, 1965.

HONOURS AND AWARDS

Chosen by Barnes & Noble (U.S.) for their Discover Great New Writers program. At First I Hope for Rescue.

Nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, B.C., 1998.

Winner of the McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, 1990.

Winner of National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Fiction, 1990.

Finalist, Western Magazine Awards, 1989 & 1990.

Listed in Canadian Who’s Who; Who’s Who in Canadian Literature.

Winner of the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award, UCLA, 1965.