Nicole Boyce

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  • Longlisted for the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize

    I’m happy to share that I’m longlisted for this year’s CBC Poetry Prize! “Oliphant Cemetery, Three Years Old” was written following a chaotic walk with my then-preschooler to a cemetery in rural Ontario. Great to see it on this list! Looking forward to reading the shortlisted pieces in a couple weeks. Read more

  • Finalist for the Alberta Literary Awards

    My short story “Rat King” is a finalist for the Howard O’Hagan Short Story Award! Thanks so much to the Writers’ Guild of Alberta and to The Dalhousie Review for originally publishing the piece. Looking forward to reading the other finalists’ work and to hearing the winners announced on June 6th! Read more

  • Longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize

    Pleased to share that I have a poem on this year’s CBC poetry longlist! “When it’s 9:48pm and the kids are asleep and you realize you’ve spent the entire night on your phone” is about doomscrolling and parenthood and the various fleeting ways—both frivolous and not—that people spend their time.  Congrats to all the other… Read more

  • “One Route, Over and Over” in Best Canadian Essays

    Very excited to share that “One Route, Over and Over,” my essay about driving a restless baby to sleep, appears in Best Canadian Essays 2024! Thanks very much to editor Marcello Di Cintio and to publisher Biblioasis! And thanks to EVENT for originally publishing this piece as part of their nonfiction contest shortlist. I’ve enjoyed… Read more

  • 3rd place in the EVENT Non-Fiction Contest

    I’m so happy to announce that “One Route, Over and Over” won third place in the EVENT Non-Fiction Contest. Thank you so much to EVENT and to judge David A. Robertson! This is lovely news to receive at any time, and it’s particularly nice to receive it as I rock my second born to sleep.… Read more

  • Longlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize

    I have a piece on this year’s CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist! “One Route, Over and Over” is about my late start as a driver (I started driving in my thirties) and the many hours my husband and I spent driving our infant to sleep.   Thanks CBC, and congrats to all the other longlisted writers! I’m… Read more

  • Not That Bad now available

    Not That Bad is out today! I’m so proud to be a part of this anthology. Thank you Roxane Gay for the opportunity, and thank you to my fellow contributors for your powerful and honest words. There are thirty pieces in this book, and all of them will stick with me. You can get your… Read more

  • “Fallibility” on EVENT’s Non-Fiction Shortlist

    Very pleased to announce that “Fallibility,” an essay from my collection on nostalgia, is shortlisted for EVENT’s 2017 Non-Fiction Contest! Thanks so much to the readers at EVENT! In “Fallibility,” I interview my high school boyfriend about our relationship, ten years after the fact. We talk about our memories—the places they overlap, the places they… Read more

  • Active Fiction eBook published by Vancouver Public Library

    Remember that time I wrote an off-brand “choose your own adventure” story? That story—along with seven other Vancouver-inspired literary creations—is now part of an eBook published by the Vancouver Public Library! Check out Active Fiction: Literary Fiction & Public Space in Vancouver to read work by: Francine Cunningham Dina Del Bucchia Meredith Hambrock Sarah Higgins Brittany… Read more

  • Winner of the 2016 Prairie Fire Non-Fiction Contest

    I’m thrilled to announce some great news: my essay “The Old House” was selected as the winner of the 2016 Prairie Fire Non-Fiction contest! Thanks so much to judge Helen Humphreys, and to all the readers and folks at Prairie Fire. I’m honoured and pleasantly surprised—this is my first contest win and it feels as great… Read more