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Canadian author and screenwriter
Daniel Allen Cox
Born (1976-02-03 ) February 3, 1976 (age 48 ) Montreal , Quebec , CanadaOccupation Writer Period 2000s-present Notable works Shuck , Krakow Melt
Daniel Allen Cox (born February 3, 1976) is a Canadian author . Cox's novels Shuck and Krakow Melt were both finalists for the Lambda Literary Award and the ReLit Award , and his memoir-in-essays I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness was a finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal.[1] [2] [3]
Life and career
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Cox was born in Montreal , Quebec , Canada, where he was raised a Jehovah's Witness . His novella Tattoo This Madness In , about a young Jehovah’s Witness who uses Smurf tattoos to rebel against his faith, was nominated for an Expozine Alternative Press Award.[4]
Shuck , his debut novel about a New York City hustler, was a Lambda Literary Award and a ReLit Award finalist. Cox’s second novel Krakow Melt was excerpted in The Advocate ,[5] nominated for the Ferro-Grumley Award , and named to the American Library Association ’s Over the Rainbow List. The novel formed the basis of three essays in the debut issue of The Word Hoard , academic journal of the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University .[6] [7] [8]
The author’s third and fourth novels, Basement of Wolves and Mouthquake , were also published by Arsenal Pulp Press .[9] [10] An excerpt of Mouthquake was translated for Nova Istra literary journal as the first queer text to be published in the Chakavian dialect of Croatian , as well as the first text to introduce the personage of Antonio Barichievich , Croatian-Canadian strongman, to a Croatian literary audience.[11] [12] Cox read the entire novel out loud at a durational performance, the last event held at RATS9 gallery in Montreal.[13]
Cox has appeared at Ottawa International Writers Festival , Blue Metropolis Montréal International Literary Festival ,[14] Winnipeg International Writers Festival , Victoria Festival of Authors, GritLit Festival, Westfest , the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival, and Strand Bookstore , as well as on CBC Radio One and Airelibre TV.[15] He co-wrote the screenplay for the Bruce LaBruce film Gerontophilia , and is a former columnist for Xtra! and former president of the Quebec Writers' Federation .
His essays and short stories have been published in several anthologies and literary journals, including The Guardian , The Globe and Mail ,Electric Literature , Literary Hub , Catapult , The Florida Review , The Rumpus , Fourth Genre , Maisonneuve, Open Book Toronto , and filling Station .[16] [17] His essay "The Glow of Electrum", published in The Malahat Review , was named Notable in The Best American Essays 2021 and was a finalist for a Canadian National Magazine Award in Personal Journalism.[18] His essay "You Can't Blame Movers for Everything Broken," also published in The Malahat Review , was named Notable in The Best American Essays 2023 and was reprinted in Best Canadian Essays 2024 .[19] Cox was a juror for the 2021 Dayne Ogilvie Prize presented by Writers' Trust of Canada .
Cox's memoir-in-essays I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness was published in May 2023.[20] It was a finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal, named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023, and reviewed in The Washington Post .[21] [22]
Bibliography
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Tattoo This Madness In (novella, Dusty Owl Press, 2006) ISBN 0-9739266-4-3
Shuck (novel, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008) ISBN 978-1-55152-246-3
Krakow Melt (novel, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010) ISBN 978-1-55152-372-9
Basement of Wolves (novel, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2012) ISBN 978-1-55152-446-7
Mouthquake (novel, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015) ISBN 978-1-55152-604-1
I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness (essays, Penguin Random House Canada, 2023) ISBN 978-0-73524-210-4
References
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^ "22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards" . Lambda Literary . June 27, 2011.
^ "Grand Prix du livre de Montreal: 2023 edition" . Montreal.ca . November 14, 2023. Retrieved December 17, 2023 .
^ Roberts, Laura (2008). "DF'd and out in Montreal" . The Link . Archived from the original on April 2, 2018. Retrieved April 1, 2018 .
^ "The Ninio in the Room" . The Advocate . September 16, 2010.
^ Matthew Halse, Dock Currie (July 15, 2012). "Prometheus Queer" . The Word Hoard . Issue 1.
^ Wennekers, Eileen (July 15, 2012). "The Progeny of Prometheus: Solidarity as Gift" . Word Hoard . Issue 1.
^ Stepaniuk, Casey (July 15, 2012). "Publishing and Reading as Dissent: Resistance, Literary Tourism and Arsenal Pulp Press" . Word Hoard . Issue 1.
^ Burnett, Richard (May 1, 2012). "Porn star, author and Expos fanatic: The many lives of MTL enfant terrible Daniel Allen Cox" . The Montreal Gazette . Retrieved April 1, 2018 .
^ Colbert, Jade (March 25, 2017). "Review: New fiction from Pauline Holdstock, Paul Yee, and Daniel Allen Cox" . The Globe and Mail . Retrieved April 1, 2018 .
^ "Trusna usta" . Nova Istra . XXI.54. Fall–Winter 2016.
^ Cox, Daniel Allen (August 10, 2015). "The Myth of Fluency and a Search for New Language" . Lambda Literary . Archived from the original on August 18, 2015.
^ Marsillo, Cassandra (September 15, 2015). "Montreal Rampage" . Montreal Rampage .
^ "Azure Scratchings: Eastern Europe Today" . Blue Metropolis . 2012. Archived from the original on April 2, 2018.
^ Nasrallah, Dimitri (November 2015). "Between the Pages: Gay Writing Culture" . Between the Pages (Airelibre TV) . Archived from the original on April 2, 2018. Retrieved April 1, 2018 .
^ Cox, Daniel Allen (May 10, 2023). "Life after shunning: what I faced after coming out as a queer Jehovah's witness" . The Guardian . Retrieved December 17, 2023 .
^ Cox, Daniel Allen (August 4, 2023). "Author Daniel Allen Cox discards perfection in narrating his audiobook" . The Globe and Mail . Retrieved December 17, 2023 .
^ "2021 National Magazine Awards Nominees Announced" . 2021. Retrieved October 1, 2022 .
^ Cintio, Marcello Di (November 14, 2023). The Best Canadian Essays 2024 . Biblioasis. ISBN 9781771965651 . Retrieved December 17, 2023 .
^ Cox, Daniel Allen (May 10, 2023). "Life after shunning: what I faced after coming out as a queer Jehovah's witness" . The Guardian . Retrieved May 10, 2023 .
^ "PW Best Books of 2023" . Publishers Weekly . Retrieved December 17, 2023 .
^ Tenz, Courtney (May 19, 2023). "What it's like to leave the Jehovah's Witnesses" . The Washington Post . Retrieved December 17, 2023 .
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