David Layton
WRITER/MENTOR
Award winning journalist David Layton has had short fiction and articles published in numerous newspapers and magazines including: The Daily Telegraph, Conde Nast, The Toronto Star and The Globe & Mail. He is the author of “Motion Sickness”, published by McFarlane Walter & Ross, a memoir which was shortlisted for the Trillium Award. His critically acclaimed second book, “The Bird Factory” was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2005 and film rights for the novel were recently sold to Marty Katz, executive producer of “Hotel Rwanda”. David Layton’s third book, “Bloodlines”, will be published by HarperCollins, Canada.
David has been a DD mentor for the Short Form 2010 and Long Form 2013, 2015, 2019.
Selected Works
Writing Exercise
This is one I owe to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, who said that the image of a slug crawling al... Read More
Chicken Killing in Israel
Kibbutz Gamorah sat at the top of a hill, not a jewelled crown with a castle on top but spread out like a ga... Read More
Feeling Projection
Sometimes the most effective way of conveying a character’s feelings is to project them onto other people, a... Read More
Untitled (Grade 9 Assignment)
Mr. Pyotr was his name, a man who was 70 when I was still just encountering the world. His face had as many ... Read More
Author of the Month: David Layton
Tell us about yourself. This is the sort of alarming question that inevitably leads towards the false accou... Read More
