Andrea Routley

{{short description|Canadian writer}}

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Andrea Routley is a Canadian writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia.[http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Crush_worthy-13320.aspx "Crush worthy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505040022/http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Crush_worthy-13320.aspx |date=2013-05-05 }}. Xtra!, March 21, 2013. Her short story collection Jane and the Whales was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards in 2014.[http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=books&article=830 "Lambda Literary Awards finalists announced"]. Bay Area Reporter, April 3, 2014. Her short stories appear in Canadian literary magazines such as Geist and The Fiddlehead Review.{{Cite news |date=1 September 2022 |title=65 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in fall 2022 |work=CBC Books |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/65-works-of-canadian-fiction-to-watch-for-in-fall-2022-1.6564481}}

She was a founder of the LGBT literary magazine Plenitude and of the Sunshine Coast's (Canada) Read Out Loud LGBT reading series,[http://www.coastreporter.net/entertainment/arts-entertainment/three-days-of-pride-1.1973314 "Three days of pride"]. Coast Reporter, June 18, 2015. and was editor of the 2010 anthology Walk Myself Home: An Anthology to End Violence Against Women."Walk Myself Home". Herizons, Spring 2012. In 2020, her book This Unlikely Soil was shortlisted for the Malahat Review Novella Prize.{{Cite web |last=Manley |first=Alison |date=2022-11-26 |title=This Unlikely Soil: Stories by Andrea Routley |url=https://miramichireader.ca/2022/11/this-unlikely-soil-stories-by-andrea-routley/ |access-date=2023-04-11 |website=The Miramichi Reader |language=en-US}}

During the 2022-23 winter, Routley was a writer-in-residence at the Haig-Brown House of the Campbell River Museum on Vancouver Island, where she planned to finish a new novel.{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-12-01 |title=Haig-Brown writer in residence hopes to reconnect with the rain forest |url=https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/community/haig-brown-writer-in-residence-hopes-to-reconnect-with-the-rain-forest/ |access-date=2023-04-11 |website=www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com |publisher=Vancouver Island Free Daily |language=en-US}}