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Richard Scarsbrook

Richard Scarsbrook is the award-winning author of ten books: the novels Cheeseburger Subversive, Featherless Bipeds, The Monkeyface Chronicles, Nothing Man and The Purple Zero, The Indifference League, and Rockets Versus Gravity, the short story collection Destiny’s Telescope, and the poetry books Six Weeks and Apocalypse One Hundred. His next novel, The Troupers, will be published in 2021, and he’s working on another called The Girl Who Could Not Die. He has also published nearly one hundred short stories and poems in anthologies, magazines, and journals.
Richard won the 2011 White Pine Award, his books have been finalists for the CLA YA Book of the Year, the Stellar Book Prize, and the ReLit Award, and he has won numerous prizes for his poems and stories.
His screenplays have been semi-finalists in the PAGE, Screencraft, and Final Draft Big Break competitions. His first produced film, Royal Blood, was an official selection at many international film festivals, and won Best Short Film at the TIFF-associated Milton Film Festival.
Richard teaches Creative Writing Courses at George Brown and Humber Colleges, and has served as Writer in Residence for the Toronto Public Library, the Richmond Hill Public Library, the Toronto District School Board, and the Orangeville Public Library. He is a member of the Ontario College of Teachers, and dozens of his students have gone on to publish work developed in his creative writing courses and workshops.
You can find out more about Richard’s literary adventures at www.richardscarsbrook.com .