This year has been an active one for Steven Heighton, one of Canada's best novelists, and a well-awarded writer of short fiction and poetry. He's published a poetry collection, Patient Frame, and won the 2010 National Magazine Award gold for short fiction. His new novel, Every Lost Country, is a Canadian best-seller, an Amazon.ca Best Book of the Month and also Best of the Year So Far choice, and has recently been optioned for film.According to The Globe and Mail, Heighton "increasingly resembles [Joseph Conrad] in important aspects. Those aspects include "taking the bare bones of an event occurring on the borderlines of most of our geographical, political and moral experiences" and making them into a powerful and relevant story. To read an interview with Steven Heighton, in which he discusses why and how he writes and what he's currently working on, click here.
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Listen to an excerpt from Steven Heighton's 2008 National Magazine Award gold for short fiction winner, "The Dead Are More Visible," from Rattling Books' EarLit Shorts 3.
