Janet Trull, Author

The backroads are unpaved,

unplowed and unpopular.

All the best stories start here.

Janet Trull

BIO

Janet Trull is a freelance writer with bi-weekly contributions to the Haliburton Echo, one of the last remaining independent newspapers in Ontario.  Her personal essays, professional writing and short stories have appeared in The Globe and Mail, Canadian Living Magazine, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly, subTerrain Magazine, and Geist among others.  She has won several writing awards, including a CBC Canada Writes challenge, a Western Magazine Award nomination and a Commonwealth Fiction prize.  Her collection of short fiction, Hot Town and Other Stories, was published in 2016 by At Bay Press (Winnipeg).  Once a Storm, published as part of At Bay Press’s “From the Heart” series is a small volume memorializing those who have lost their struggle with drug addiction.  Trull’s collection of short stories, Something’s Burning, was a CBC Recommended Read for Fall 2022, and is now available worldwide.  The publication date for End of the Line, Trull’s historical novel set in Haliburton, Ontario, is October 1, 2023 .