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# Jessica Westhead

JW's interweb

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## Pages

- [](https://www.jessicawesthead.com/)
- [Teaching](https://www.jessicawesthead.com/presentations) - Dear Aspiring Writers: I would love to work with you! I'm excited to be an instructor with the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies, teaching the online course 1863 - Writing Short Fiction: Master Class. Teaching creative writing, and offering feedback on other writers’ work, is a great joy and passion for me, and
- [News and Happenings](https://www.jessicawesthead.com/happenings) - NEWS I’m absolutely thrilled to be joining authors Sawako Nakayasu and Philip Terry as the program faculty at the Late Spring Writers Residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in April 2026! My new story "Trickle" has been published in the beauteous online pages of R&R! My newest short story collection Avalanche,
- [Bio](https://www.jessicawesthead.com/bio) - Jessica Westhead's short stories have appeared in major literary magazines in Canada, the US, and the UK, including Hazlitt, Five Dials, Maisonneuve, Geist, The New Quarterly, and Indiana Review. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards, selected for a Journey Prize anthology, and nominated for a National Magazine Award. Her chapbook Those
- [](https://www.jessicawesthead.com/buythebook) - Buy Worry from your local independent bookseller (please think of your local independent bookstores first, because they are awesome)...here is a list of indies across Canada! from amazon.ca from chapters.indigo.ca available on Kindle and Kobo Worry is also available as an audiobook from Audible. Buy Things Not to Do from your local independent bookseller
- [Press](https://www.jessicawesthead.com/press) - praise for Avalanche “White people’s anxieties, anger, fear, and self-doubt regarding race and racism are placed centre stage in Avalanche, the provocative and illuminating new collection of short fiction by Toronto-based Jessica Westhead… Sophisticated both thematically and stylistically, Avalanche is a meaningful contribution to an important cultural conversation.” —Shawn Syms, Quill & Quire (starred review) “The surface playfulness
- [editing, transcription & fiction critiquing](https://www.jessicawesthead.com/editing-transcription-fiction-critiquing) - I’m a freelance copy editor and proofreader specializing in educational publishing, corporate communications, and fiction of all genres. Please contact me with your text-fixing needs. I’m also an experienced and speedy transcriptionist. If you need a document, video, or audio recording transcribed quickly and accurately, please do get in touch with me about your project. What
- [poetry winner zine](https://www.jessicawesthead.com/zine) - Nearly two decades ago, I was a proud member of the Hoity Toity Writers, a motley literary crew that was my first-ever writing group, which I joined after moving to Toronto in 1998. The Hoities encouraged and fostered my writing more than I can say. For several years we met regularly at places where one order
- [Contact Jessica](https://www.jessicawesthead.com/contact) - representation Jessica Westhead is represented by Sam Hiyate, Agent of Fantastic-ness, at The Rights Factory. e-mail: jessica AT jessicawesthead.com
- [Book clubs](https://www.jessicawesthead.com/bookclub) - For book club folks who are interested in reading my short story collection Avalanche, I wrote this Reading Guide to share my thought process behind writing these stories. If you happen to be in a book club and you're reading my novel Worry, please have a look at this handy HarperCollins Book Club Guide. I love
- [Mini-zines](https://www.jessicawesthead.com/mini-zines) - I have a fondness for grocery-store flyers. And not because of their money-saving potential, but because of their pictures. There’s something compelling for me about these unglamorous photos of glistening raw-meal piles (with garnish), bulbous yams, sturdy pastries, and quivering shrimp rings. Over the years, I’ve used lots of these glossy and non-glossy images to

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