 Kathryn Mockler, 2023
Short literary bio
Kathryn Mockler is the author of the story collection Anecdotes (Book*hug Press, 2023), which won the 2024 Victoria Butler Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award, 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, 2024 Fred Kerner Award, and 2024 VMI Besty Warland Between Genres Award. She co-edited the print anthology Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Books, 2020) and runs the literary newsletter Send My Love to Anyone. She teaches screenwriting and fiction in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria.
short film bio
Kathryn Mockler is a screenwriter and experimental filmmaker. She is a CFC alumnus, TIFF Talent Lab participant, winner of the San Francisco Film Society Screenwriting Fellowship and is a Nicholl semifinalist, and a Zoetrope and BlueCat Quarterfinalist. Her films and experimental videos have screened at such festivals as TIFF, EMFA, Palm Springs Film Festival and most recently at the Arizona Underground Film Festival and REELPoetry/HoustonTX. She is the author of the short fiction collection, Anecdotes (Book*hug Press, 2023), which was a finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award, the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the 2024 Fred Kerner Award, the 2024 City of Victoria Bulter Book Prize, and the 2024 VMI Besty Warland Between Genres Award. She teaches screenwriting and fiction in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria.
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Long bioKathryn Mockler is the author five books of poetry, several short films and experimental videos, and the story collection
Anecdotes (Book*hug Press, 2023), which won the 2024 Victoria Butler Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award, 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, 2024 Fred Kerner Award, and 2024 VMI Besty Warland Between Genres Award. Her films and experimental videos have screened at over 60 festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Festival, ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, and EMAF, and most recently at the Arizona Underground Film Festival and the REELPoetryHoustonTX Festival. And they have won awards at Worldfest, Yorkton, The Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, and Euroshorts and have been broadcast on TMN, Movieola, and Bravo. She is a TIFF Talent Lab Alumnus, a Praxis Screenwriting Fellow, and won the San Francisco Film Society Screenwriting Fellowship. She attended the Canadian Film Centre's Writers' Lab and wrote two short films for the NBC/Universal Short Dramatic Film Program. Kathryn Mockler has been publishing and editing online literary journals since 2011. She published The Rusty Toque from 2011 to 2017, was the Canada Editor of Joyland: a hub for short fiction from 2013-2020, and was the publisher of Watch Your Head, an online literary journal that published writing and art about the climate crisis and climate justice from 2019-2023. She co-wrote the poetry chapbook Me Then You Then Me Then (Knife | Fork | Book, 2020) with Gary Barwin and she co-edited a climate anthology Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Books, 2020). Her writing has been published in Catapult, Quill & Quire, Fence, Arc Magazine, Geist, This Magazine, and others, and she runs the literary newsletter Send My Love to Anyone. She is an associate professor in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria where she teaches screenwriting and fiction. short literary & film bio
Kathryn Mockler is a writer, screenwriter, experimental filmmaker, editor, and publisher and the author of the story collection Anecdotes (Book*hug Press, 2023), which won the 2024 Victoria Butler Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award, 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, 2024 Fred Kerner Award, and 2024 VMI Besty Warland Between Genres Award. She co-edited the print anthology Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Books, 2020). Her films have screened at TIFF, EMFA, the Palm Springs Film Festival and most recently at the Arizona Underground Film Festival and REELPoetry/HoustonTX. She runs the literary newsletter Send My Love to Anyone and teaches screenwriting and fiction in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria.
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