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Adrick

Brock

Adrick Brock is a writer from Toronto Island. His fiction has appeared in The New Quarterly, EVENT, The Malahat Review, Prism International, Riddle Fence, The Dalhousie Review and has been short- and long-listed for the CBC Short Story contest. His first published story, ‘Nina In The Body Of A Clown,’ won the 2014 Western Magazine Award for Fiction. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and lives in Vancouver. His debut novel, Islanders, comes out in 2026.

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“They reached a natural stopping point a few hundred feet from shore and without any discussion turned around and swam back. Over the treetops the city was veiled in its own pollution, the beachgoers colourful reptiles sprawled on a blond log. Theo had read in a coffee table book that the Mississaugas used to bring their sick here, back when the Island wasn’t an island, but a sandy spit stitched in wildflowers. He supposed it would have been quite pleasant back then, without the dubstep or the popcorning volleyballs. A place of healing, the book had said. But what about now? The Island struck him as a contested place, urban sprawl alongside the grit of the backwoods, everyone wanting a piece for themselves, their vision of how it ought to be, colonial avarice on repeat. Was it a park or a neighbourhood? To whom did it owe its gifts?”

PUBLICATIONS

Fiction

Chez Madame, PRISM International (Summer 2017)

The Bull Cook, The Malahat Review (Summer 2017)

Hotp!nk, The New Quarterly (Winter 2016)

Mozambique, The Moon, The Dalhousie Review (Fall 2015)

Us And The Wide Open North, EVENT (Fall 2015)

Big Elsewhere, Riddle Fence (Fall 2014)

Nina In The Body Of A Clown, The Malahat Review (Spring 2013)

The Hunting Club, CBC Short Story Contest (2012)

Journalism

Taking Back the Streets, Megaphone Magazine (August 1, 2015)

The Many Choirs of Jenny Ritter, Megaphone Magazine (February 27, 2015)

Art Before Bulldozers, Canoe & Kayak Magazine (June 17, 2014)

Bill Mason’s Paddle, Canoe & Kayak Magazine (June 4, 2014)

The Arctic Apple, Modern Farmer (January 23, 2014)

Block Head, Silviculture Magazine (Fall 2012)

Let It All Go, Vancouver Magazine (May 1, 2011)

Reviews

Tragically Hip, PRISM International (January 15, 2016)

Ditchturf & Thawmud, PRISM International (October 21, 2015)

Poetry

99 B-Line, One Cool Word Magazine (#18, 2011)

Simone, Canadian Woman Studies (Vol 29, 2011)

Your Wife, The Mechanic, Canadian Woman Studies (Vol 28, 2010)

CONTACT

Email – adrickbrock@gmail.com

Instagram – @adrickbee