About Britt (she/her)

Britt Gillman’s essays, flash and fiction have been published in The New York Times, EVENT, Eavesdrop Magazine, kerning, the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society and are forthcoming elsewhere. In 2023 & 2024, she won second place non-fiction prizes with Prism International and EVENT.

Britt is a former librarian and copywriter, contributing to the literary community by facilitating writing groups, book club, hosting author panels and open mic nights in celebration of CanLit.

She is currently working on a collection of personal essays that explore the connection between familial memories and class through idioms — a project inspired by a curiosity on the ways etymology and language can shape both belonging and “other-ness”. In fiction, she writes short stories on women and illness. She publishes a fairly sporadic newsletter on Substack called Brief Notes, where she shares craft prompts.

Britt writes about: food + pleasure / belonging in nature / motherhood / dreams / rage / Ontario / mental illness / ancestry / gardening as a radical act.

She resides in Eastern Ontario’s Ottawa Valley (Renfrew County) with her two children, three cats, and many stacks of books. When not writing, she can likely be found attempting to befriend the local bird population.

She is a Member of the Writer’s Union of Canada and the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society.