Greg Kearney

{{short description|Canadian writer}}

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| birth_place = Kenora, Ontario, Canada

| occupation = novelist, short story writer, playwright

| period = 2000s-present

| nationality = Canadian

| notableworks = Pretty, The Desperates

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Greg Kearney is a Canadian writer. He was a humour columnist for Xtra! from 1999 to 2005,[http://dailyxtra.com/toronto/ideas/greg-kearney-bids-farewell?market=210 "Greg Kearney bids farewell"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200405132854/http://dailyxtra.com/toronto/ideas/greg-kearney-bids-farewell?market=210 |date=2020-04-05 }}. Xtra!, September 14, 2005. and published his debut short story collection Mommy Daddy Baby in 2004."Mommy Daffy Baby". Quill & Quire, February 2005.

Born in Kenora, Ontario,[http://dailyxtra.com/toronto/crazy-wisdom "Crazy wisdom"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812000630/http://dailyxtra.com/toronto/crazy-wisdom |date=2014-08-12 }}. Xtra!, November 10, 2004. he is based in Toronto, where he studied theatre at York University.

He was awarded an Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize in 2009,[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/toronto-novelist-wins-award-for-emerging-gay-writer-1.839407 "Toronto novelist wins award for emerging gay writer"]. CBC News, June 9, 2009. and his second short story collection Pretty, published in 2011, won a ReLit Award in the short fiction category in 2012.[http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/authors/relit-awards-2012-winners-announced/ "ReLit Awards 2012 winners announced"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219133816/https://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/authors/relit-awards-2012-winners-announced/ |date=2013-12-19 }}. Quill & Quire, October 30, 2012.

His first novel, The Desperates, was published by Cormorant Books in 2013."Self-Doubt, Self-Sabotage & No Edit Button". In Toronto, November 2013.

He has also written several short plays for Buddies in Bad Times' annual Rhubarb Festival and Theatre Passe Muraille,[http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsK/kearney-greg.html Greg Kearney] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130809081258/http://doollee.com/PlaywrightsK/kearney-greg.html |date=2013-08-09 }} plays listing at doollee.com. including Fruits and Crosses, Margot and the Great Big Plate, The Cry Sisters, The Betty Dean Fanzine, (555) 555 5555[http://torontoist.com/2005/02/rhubarb_and_che_1/ "Rhubarb and Cheese, Rhubarb and Cheese, Rhubarb and Cheese…"]. Torontoist, February 2, 2005. and Cancun.[http://www.blogto.com/arts/2006/02/rhubarb_profile_cancun/ "Rhubarb Profile: Cancun"]. BlogTO, February 10, 2006. Cancun appears in the Sky Gilbert-edited anthology Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays, published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2006, alongside plays by Harry Rintoul, Shawn Postoff, Christian Lloyd, Greg MacArthur, Ken Brand and Michael Achtman.Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays. Playwrights Canada Press, 2006. {{ISBN|978-0887548529}}.

His 2024 novel An Evening with Birdy O'Day was a shortlisted finalist for the 2025 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.Cassandra Drudi, [https://quillandquire.com/omni/three-books-shortlisted-for-2025-leacock-medal/ "Three books shortlisted for 2025 Leacock Medal"]. Quill & Quire, May 20, 2025.