David Huebert is a Canadian writer from Halifax, Nova Scotia.David Burke, "David Huebert's prize-winning short story driven by sister's personal loss". CBC News Nova Scotia, April 20, 2016.
Huebert, at the time a Ph.D. student in English literature at the University of Western Ontario, was a winner of the CBC Literary Prize in the short stories category in 2016 for the story "Enigma".
His debut short story collection, Peninsula Sinking, was published in 2017,Robert J. Wiersema, "Peninsula Sinking by David Huebert, and A Bird on Every Tree by Carol Bruneau". Quill & Quire, October 2017. and was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2018."David Huebert among finalists for $10K Danuta Gleed Literary Award for best first short story collection". CBC Books, May 9, 2018. In 2021, it was also retroactively shortlisted for the delayed 2018 ReLit Award for short fiction.Ryan Porter, "ReLit, revived after four years, announces 2018 award winners as part of month-long celebration". Quill & Quire, April 9, 2021.
In 2020, he was shortlisted for the Journey Prize for his short story "Chemical Valley".Ryan Porter, "Short fiction finalists announced for the 2020 Journey Prize". Quill & Quire, August 26, 2020. It was the title story of his second short story collection, Chemical Valley (2021),Peter Szuban, "The Toxic Sublime: A Review of David Huebert’s 'Chemical Valley'". Prism International, April 21, 2022. which was shortlisted for the 2022 ReLit Award for short fiction"Short fiction from Norma Dunning, David Huebert, Alix Ohlin among works shortlisted for 2022 ReLit Awards". CBC Books, May 9, 2022. and both the Thomas Head Raddall Award for fiction and the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction at the 2022 Atlantic Book Awards."Halifax poet and author David Huebert among finalists for 2022 Atlantic Book Awards". CBC Books, April 26, 2022.
He has also published the poetry chapbook Full Mondegreens (2017), a collaboration with Andy Verboom in which they composed mondegreen versions of other writers' previously published poetry, and the solo poetry collection Humanimus (2020).
In 2024, he published his debut novel, Oil People.Talia Kliot, "David Huebert explores the complexity of our relationship with oil in novel Oil People". CBC Books, September 13, 2024. The book was shortlisted for the 2025 Amazon.ca First Novel Award,"Amazon Canada First Novel Award shortlist announced". Quill & Quire, May 6, 2025. and won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award in 2025.
Huebert has worked as an assistant professor of English literature at the University of New Brunswick,"N.B. authors, illustrators make a splash on Atlantic Book Awards shortlist". CBC News New Brunswick, May 1, 2022. and has taught creative writing at Dalhousie University. He currently teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Fiction program at the University of King's College.
Huebert is also co-editor of The Goose, the journal of Wilfrid Laurier University's Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada.
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