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I’m Rebecca Morris. My first novel OTHER MAPS was published in September 2024 with Linda Leith Publishing.

I’ve lived in Montreal since 2007, but Other Maps is set in my hometown of Guelph, Ontario.

I’m a member of the Board of Directors for the Quebec Writers’ Federation and I was a reader for the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize. I’ve won a number of awards for my short fiction; My story “Exercises au subjonctif” won the Humber Literary Review’s 2022 Emerging Writers Fiction contest, while “Foreign Bodies” won the 2017 Malahat Review Open Season Award for Fiction and was the Malahat’s nominee for the 2018 Journey Prize. I earned Honourable Mention in Prairie Fire’s 2018 Short Fiction contest and was long-listed for Room Magazine’s 2018 Fiction contest. My stories have also appeared in carte blanche, Hamilton Arts & Letters, FreeFall, Qwerty andtheAntigonish Review.

I’ve received Creation grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, a research grant from the Access Copyright Foundation and Mentorship Microgrants from The Writers’ Union of Canada. I attended the 2019 Spring Banff Writer’s Retreat with Liz Howard and Cherie Dimaline and I’ve taken courses and workshops through the Humber School for Writers, the Quebec Writer’s Federation and UBC’s online Creative Writing program. I was a high school teacher before becoming a full-time writer, and I’ve led a number of workshops on story elements, narrative structure, systems for writers and the writing process.

While I’m working on my second novel, I continue to offer writing and creativity workshops for youth and adults, as well as manuscript consultations and coaching for emerging and published writers.