David Huebert
WRITER/MENTEE
Based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), David Huebert (he/him) is a settler writer of Mennonite Ukrainian and British descent. David has won the CBC Short Story Prize, was a finalist for the 2020 Journey Prize, and has appeared three times in Best Canadian Stories. David’s fiction debut, Peninsula Sinking, won a Dartmouth Book Award and was runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His latest book, Chemical Valley (Biblioasis 2021), won the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction and was shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the ReLit Award, and others. His debut novel, Oil People, will be published by McClelland and Stewart in 2024 as part of a two-book deal. David lives in Fredericton with his partner, their two children, and a fluffy white cat named Moby Dick.
David is a DD 2015 long form alum and worked with David Layton.