Ian Canon: Author & Poet

Ian Canon (he/him) is a Métis writer from Edmonton, Alberta. He was mentored by Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author, Sean Michaels. He is the author of the novel It’s A Long Way Down (2018) and The poetry collection Before Oblivion (2017). He was the EIC of Quagmire Magazine—a magazine on pause for now. He’s been published in The Globe and Mail, the Literary Review of Canada, WestWord, Brink Literary, Barzakh Magazine, long con magazine, in media res, Montréal Writes, The Sunlight Press, The Spadina Literary Review and others. He won the Illumination Prose Prize from Spire Light Magazine and was nominated by long con magazine for the best of the web fiction 2022.

You can find some of his online work here: 

• Northern Exposure, published by the Literary Review of Canada.

• On the rocks, published by The Globe and Mail.

• Last Call for the Small-Town Bar, published by the Literary Review of Canada.

• Being A Small Literary Magazine Publisher In The Age of AI, published by WestWord

• The ‘O’ Is Everything, published Brink Literary

• The Devil At The Door, published by Barzakh Magazine.

• The Producer, published by long con magazine (nominated for best of the web).

• Before Oblivion, published by The Creative Cafe — A collaboration between artist Jai Tanninen and poet Ian Canon. Download it FREE.

• It's A Long Way Down — Ian Canon's debut novel.

• “Underground Art” published in the Spadina Literary Review.

• “Josh Bronson in ‘Learning How To Die’” published in the Sunlight Press.

• “Isaac and Labe” and “God Bless You, Philippe Audiarde” in the Junction

• “A Coffee Date With Death” published in Montreal Writes

• "Old Men Weren't Always Old Men" in Kyler Zeleny's book, Found Polaroids