Website of Author Keith Maillard

Contact

I welcome your comments and queries. It might take me awhile to respond to you, but I will eventually. You can use the comment forms on many of these pages, or you can contact me directly. maillardkeith@gmail.comADVICE TO WRITERS

I teach in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia where I devote so much of my mentoring time to my students that I don’t have much left over for anyone else, but if you’re looking for help with your writing, you might consider the online EdX course, Write Your Novel, created by my colleagues Annabel Lyon and Nancy Lee.

Take your writing seriously and persist. Luck is important too, and I wish you the best of it.

Keith

My literary agent is John Pearce of Westwood Creative Artists. John is not looking for new clients at the moment.john@wcaltd.com

To schedule readings or other public events, please contact me directly.

maillardkeith@gmail.com

Keith Maillard is the author of fifteen novels, one book of poetry, and two memoirs. He has won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Literary Prize and the Governor General's Literary Awards. The Clarinet Polka was awarded the Creative Arts Prize by the Polish American Historical Association. Dementia Americana won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1995 for the Best First Book of Poetry Published in Canada.

Keith was born and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, the inspiration for the fictional town of Raysburg which serves as the setting for many of his novels. He has been a musician, a contributor for CBC Radio, a freelance photographer, and a journalist. He teaches in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.

Keith occasionally posts to X (formerly known as Twitter), to Facebook, and to Tumblr where he feels much more at home. He always posts under his own name.