About Britt (she/her)

Britt Gillman’s essays and short fiction have been published in The New York Times, EVENT, yolk, Augur, filling Station, The Ex-Puritan, Eavesdrop Magazine, kerning, and elsewhere. In 2023 & 2024, she won second place non-fiction prizes with Prism International and EVENT. In 2025, she shortlisted for the Geist Short Long-Distance Writing Contest with her essay, “Prairie Philosophy”.

Britt is a former librarian and copywriter, contributing to the literary community by facilitating writing groups and book clubs. She’s moderated and hosted events, author panels and open mic nights in celebration of CanLit.

She is currently working on a collection of creative non-fiction essays that explore memory and class through idioms — a project inspired by the ways etymology and language can shape both belonging and “other-ness”.

She publishes a fairly sporadic newsletter on Substack called Brief Notes. It is rarely brief, if at all.

She resides in Eastern Ontario’s Ottawa Valley (Renfrew County) with her two children, three cats, a dog named after her favourite tree, a wily flock of chickens and her many stacks of books.

Britt is a Member of the Writer’s Union of Canada and the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society. You can learn more about working with her at the Contact link above.