Sonal Champsee

About


Sonal Champsee’s short fiction and essays have been published by magazines such as The New Quarterly, Ricepaper, and Today’s Parent. Her novel, Everyone Can’t Be Wrong, (forthcoming Fall 2026 from Inanna Publications) was shortlisted for the 2022 UBC/HarperCollins Canada Best New Fiction prize. She was a finalist for the Writer’s Union of Canada’s 2017 Emerging Writers Short Prose contest, and has had a play produced by Prathidhwani Drama Wing in Seattle. Sonal holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, and has studied writers such as with Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Sarah Selecky, Zsuzsi Gartner and Jessica Westhead. She served on the prose editorial board for PRISM International for five years, and is a creative writing instructor for Sarah Selecky’s Writing School. Sonal lives in Toronto.

Prose Publications

Awards / Contests

  • Shortlisted, HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, 2022, for “Everyone Can’t Be Wrong”
  • Toronto Arts Council – Individual Writer’s Grant, 2022 for “Everyone Can’t Be Wrong”
  • Canada Council for the Arts – Research and Creation Grant, 2022 for “Everyone Can’t Be Wrong.”
  • Ontario Arts Council – Literary Creation Grant, 2022, for “Everyone Can’t Be Wrong.”
  • “The Deciding Problem”, nomination by The New Quarterly, National Magazine Awards (Fiction), 2020
  • “Coconut Oil”, nomination by Agnes and True, Journey Prize 2018
  • “The Deciding Problem”, finalist, The Writers Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers 2017
  • “Solvable Problems”, finalist, Thomas Morton Memorial Prize 2014
  • “Everything But The Paper”, shortlisted, Nightwood Theatre’s National Play Reading series, as part of Groundswell 2014/15.
  • “Tulips”, shortlisted, The Star Short Story Contest 2012

Playwriting

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