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Canadian writer (born 1990)

Raziel Reid

Born	Kirkland Lake, Ontario
Occupation	Writer
Period	2010s-present
Notable works	When Everything Feels Like the Movies

Raziel Reid is a Canadian writer whose debut young adult novel When Everything Feels Like the Movies won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2014 Governor General's Awards. The novel, inspired in part by the 2008 murder of gay teenager Lawrence Fobes King, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2014. Its launch was marked with a national book tour with Vivek Shraya, who was simultaneously promoting her new book She of the Mountains. In 2015, Reid became adjunct professor of Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults at the University of British Columbia.

Reid is a former blogger and columnist for Xtra Vancouver.

When Everything Feels Like the Movies was selected for inclusion in the 2015 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by blogger and broadcaster Elaine Lui. It was also nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult Literature at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards, and for Publishing Triangle's Ferro-Grumley Award.

Works

When Everything Feels Like the Movies (2014, ISBN 9781551525747)
Kens Penguin Random House Canada, Toronto 2018
Followers Penguin Random House Canada, Toronto 2020

References

"Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2014.
"On Raziel Reid, and when everything feels like a controversy". National Post, January 27, 2015.
Fall Preview 2014: YA and children's fiction. Quill & Quire, May 27, 2014.
^ "Raziel Reid & Vivek Shraya -- Dual Book Launch". McNally Robinson, October 1, 2014.
https://quillandquire.com/omni/press-release-of-the-week-ubcs-steven-galloway-hires-raziel-reid-zings-barbara-kay/
"CBC announces Canada Reads finalists". Toronto Star, January 20, 2015.
"The 26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists". Lambda Literary Foundation, March 4, 2015.
"The Publishing Triangle Award Finalists Announced" Archived 2015-03-15 at the Wayback Machine. Lambda Literary Foundation, March 10, 2015.

v t e Winners of the Governor General's Award for young people's literature — text
1980s	Morgan Nyberg, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army (1987) Welwyn Wilton Katz, The Third Magic (1988) Diana Wieler, Bad Boy (1989)
1990s	Michael Bedard, Redwork (1990) Sarah Ellis, Pick-Up Sticks (1991) Julie Johnston, Hero of Lesser Causes (1992) Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets (1993) Julie Johnston, Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me (1994) Tim Wynne-Jones, The Maestro (1995) Paul Yee, Ghost Train (1996) Kit Pearson, Awake and Dreaming (1997) Janet Lunn, The Hollow Tree (1998) Rachna Gilmore, A Screaming Kind of Day (1999)
2000s	Deborah Ellis, Looking for X (2000) Arthur Slade, Dust (2001) Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl (2002) Glen Huser, Stitches (2003) Kenneth Oppel, Airborn (2004) Pamela Porter, The Crazy Man (2005) William Gilkerson, Pirate's Passage (2006) Iain Lawrence, Gemini Summer (2007) John Ibbitson, The Landing (2008) Caroline Pignat, Greener Grass: The Famine Years (2009)
2010s	Wendy Phillips, Fishtailing (2010) Christopher Moore, From Then to Now: A Short History of the World (2011) Susin Nielsen, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen (2012) Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B (2013) Raziel Reid, When Everything Feels Like the Movies (2014) Caroline Pignat, The Gospel Truth (2015) Martine Leavitt, Calvin (2016) Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves (2017) Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster (2018) Erin Bow, Stand on the Sky (2019)
2020s	Eric Walters, The King of Jam Sandwiches (2020) Philippa Dowding, Firefly (2021) Jen Ferguson, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet (2022) Sarah Everett, The Probability of Everything (2023) Li Charmaine Anne, Crash Landing (2024)

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