Graham Slaughter is a writer of fiction and non-fiction living in Toronto.
His writing has been shortlisted for the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, the RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award, longlisted for the Masters Review Novel Excerpt contest, and recognized by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.
His journalistic work and reviews have appeared in Toronto Life, The Toronto Star, Canadian Geographic, CTV News and The Province. His reporting has been nominated for a Canadian Online Publishing Award and an RTDNA Canada Award.
He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University.
He is currently working on a coming-of-age novel and a memoir about whales.
Portfolio
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
‘Breach’ (Bronwen Wallace Award)
FICTION
‘A Spell for Oliver’ (Bodega)
JOURNALISM
Researchers see hopeful signs for Canada's whale populations (CTV News)
Endangered B.C. orcas could face extinction with Trans Mountain approval: environmentalists (CTV News)
Five charts that show what systemic racism looks like in Canada (CTV News)
CRA admits 'unclear' CERB communications led to mistaken applications (CTV News)
Unclear wording of CERB eligibility means some recipients asked to pay everything back (CTV News)
A look at genetic genealogy, the science that helped identify Christine Jessop's killer (CTV News)
How a family with a plastic surgery business discovered the joys of living above the shop (Toronto Life)
Fed up with his housemate’s chinchilla, he went looking for a bachelor pad (Toronto Life)
Should I wait for Al Pacino to stand up and do something? (Toronto Star)
Toronto police 'expresses its regret' for gay bathhouse raids (Toronto Star)
Toronto Island’s lost labyrinth brought back to life (Toronto Star)
Remember food trucks in Toronto parks last summer? One man is still paying $36,000 for the failed project (Toronto Star)
NARRATIVE LONG-FORM
Toronto runners return to reclaim Boston Marathon (Toronto Star)
Inside Reach for the Top’s battle of the brainiacs (Toronto Star)
REVIEWS
Miley Cyrus revels in excess in Toronto show (Toronto Star)
Beyonce, Jay Z raise the bar on dual concerts (Toronto Star)
Drake’s OVO fest light on stars but big on passion (Toronto Star)