Raziel Reid

Canadian writer (born 1990)

Raziel Reid

Occupation| Writer
Period| 2010s-present
Notable works| When Everything Feels Like the Movies

Raziel Reid is a Canadian writer whose debut young adult novel When Everything Feels Like the Movies won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.[1] The novel, inspired in part by the 2008 murder of gay teenager Lawrence Fobes King,[2] was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2014.[3] Its launch was marked with a national book tour with Vivek Shraya, who was simultaneously promoting her new book She of the Mountains.[4] In 2015, Reid became adjunct professor of Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults at the University of British Columbia.[5]

Reid is a former blogger and columnist for Xtra Vancouver.[4]

When Everything Feels Like the Movies was selected for inclusion in the 2015 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by blogger and broadcaster Elaine Lui.[6] It was also nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult Literature at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards,[7] and for Publishing Triangle's Ferro-Grumley Award.[8]

## Works

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* When Everything Feels Like the Movies (2014, ISBN 9781551525747)
* Kens Penguin Random House Canada, Toronto 2018
* Followers Penguin Random House Canada, Toronto 2020

## References

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* Children and Young Adult Literature portal

1. ^ "Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2014.
2. ^ "On Raziel Reid, and when everything feels like a controversy". National Post, January 27, 2015.
3. ^ Fall Preview 2014: YA and children's fiction. Quill & Quire, May 27, 2014.
4. ^ a b "Raziel Reid & Vivek Shraya -- Dual Book Launch". McNally Robinson, October 1, 2014.
5. ^ "Press release of the week: UBC's Steven Galloway hires Raziel Reid; zings Barbara Kay | Quill and Quire". 3 September 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-09-07. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
6. ^ "CBC announces Canada Reads finalists". Toronto Star, January 20, 2015.
7. ^ "The 26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists". Lambda Literary Foundation, March 4, 2015.
8. ^ "The Publishing Triangle Award Finalists Announced" Archived 2015-03-15 at the Wayback Machine. Lambda Literary Foundation, March 10, 2015.

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Winners of the Governor General's Award for young people's literature — text

1980s|

* Morgan Nyberg, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army (1987)
* Welwyn Wilton Katz, The Third Magic (1988)
* Diana Wieler, Bad Boy (1989)

1990s|

* Michael Bedard, Redwork (1990)
* Sarah Ellis, Pick-Up Sticks (1991)
* Julie Johnston, Hero of Lesser Causes (1992)
* Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets (1993)
* Julie Johnston, Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me (1994)
* Tim Wynne-Jones, The Maestro (1995)
* Paul Yee, Ghost Train (1996)
* Kit Pearson, Awake and Dreaming (1997)
* Janet Lunn, The Hollow Tree (1998)
* Rachna Gilmore, A Screaming Kind of Day (1999)

2000s|

* Deborah Ellis, Looking for X (2000)
* Arthur Slade, Dust (2001)
* Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl (2002)
* Glen Huser, Stitches (2003)
* Kenneth Oppel, Airborn (2004)
* Pamela Porter, The Crazy Man (2005)
* William Gilkerson, Pirate's Passage (2006)
* Iain Lawrence, Gemini Summer (2007)
* John Ibbitson, The Landing (2008)
* Caroline Pignat, Greener Grass: The Famine Years (2009)

2010s|

* Wendy Phillips, Fishtailing (2010)
* Christopher Moore, From Then to Now: A Short History of the World (2011)
* Susin Nielsen, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen (2012)
* Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B (2013)
* Raziel Reid, When Everything Feels Like the Movies (2014)
* Caroline Pignat, The Gospel Truth (2015)
* Martine Leavitt, Calvin (2016)
* Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves (2017)
* Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster (2018)
* Erin Bow, Stand on the Sky (2019)

2020s|

* Eric Walters, The King of Jam Sandwiches (2020)
* Philippa Dowding, Firefly (2021)
* Jen Ferguson, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet (2022)
* Sarah Everett, The Probability of Everything (2023)
* Li Charmaine Anne, Crash Landing (2024)

Authority control databases

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* ISNI
* VIAF
* WorldCat

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* Germany
* United States
* Czech Republic

Other|

* IdRef

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