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In 2006, he completed an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.

Weston currently lives in London, England. My novels for children and young adults have won awards in Canada, the US, and Germany, and inlcude Zorgamazoo, Dust City, Blues for Zoey, and others.

Find me (only very occasionally) on Threads, Instagram, Bluesky,  X, and Goodreads.

My fiction has been heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour, and appeared in the Stinging Fly, the Normal School, Litro Magazine, the New Orleans Review,the Raleigh Review, and elsewhere. Since then, I’ve spent my life studying, travelling and/or struggling to survive in Canada, the US, Japan, France and Switzerland.

His debut was the award-winning novel-in-verse, Zorgamazoo. 2011 California Young Reader Medal (for Zorgamazoo).

Achievements

  • 2011 California Young Reader Medal (for Zorgamazoo) 2010 Silver Birch Fiction award (for Zorgamazoo) 2009 Shortlisted, E.B. White Read Aloud Award (for Zorgamazoo) 2009 Children’s Literature Association Notable Books for 2009 (Zorgamazoo).

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His short fiction has appeared in literary journals in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

His second novel, a dark fantasy for young adults entitled Dust City, was published in October 2010.

Robert Paul Weston was born October 21, 1975 in Dover, England.

From 2002 to 2004, he worked in Japan as a high school teacher.

Robert Paul Weston

Robert Paul Weston (born October 21, 1975) is a British-born Canadian children's writer.

Weston currently lives in London, England.

Prizes and honours

  • 2011 California Young Reader Medal (for Zorgamazoo)
  • 2010 Silver Birch Fiction award (for Zorgamazoo)
  • 2009 Shortlisted, E.B. White Read Aloud Award (for Zorgamazoo)
  • 2009 Children’s Literature Association Notable Books for 2009 (Zorgamazoo)
  • Novels

  • Zorgamazoo (2008) Penguin/Razorbill
  • Dust City (2010) Penguin/Razorbill
  • The Creature Department (2013) Penguin/Razorbill
  • Prince Puggly of Spud and the Kingdom of Spiff (2014) Puffin
  • Blues for Zoey (2015) Flux Books
  • Short stories

  • “Mourning Sickness”, On Spec, No.

    62, Winter 2005

  • “The Light Switch Method”, Kiss Machine, No. 10, June 2005
  • “Thinking of Alice”, Crimewave Magazine, Vol. 9, Fall 2006
  • “Stop Plate Tectonics”, On Spec, No. 68, Spring 2007
  • “Paris, France (Somnumbulitis)”, The New Orleans Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, Fall 2007
  • “Hummingbirds and Pie”, Postscripts, Vol.

    12, Autumn 2007

  • “Salve”, Postscripts, Vol. 14, Spring 2008
  • References

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    Robert Paul Weston is a British-born Canadian children"s writer

    Background

    The story is narrated by the son of the wolf who killed Little Red Riding Hood.

    He graduated from Queen's University in 1998 with a BA in Film and Sociology.

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    From 2002 to 2004, he worked in Japan as a high school teacher. I’m a novelist, short-story writer, and lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Lincoln. In the end, I landed back in the UK, where I’m writing this.

    Everything above influences my writing, notably a muddled hybridity, be that of personhood or literary form.

    I’m not as austere as the photograph implies, but I have heaps of smile lines and I’m horrifically vain.

    My early days: I was born in Dover, on the chalky south coast of England, to a Grenadian/Indian mother and English/Turkish father and, sometime later, did most of my growing up southern Ontario, Canada.

    Education

    He graduated from Queen"s University in 1998 with a Bachelor in Film and Sociology.

    Career

    His debut was the award-winning novel-in-verse, Zorgamazoo.

    His short fiction has appeared in literary journals in Canada, the UK and the United States.

    Contents

    His second novel, a dark fantasy for young adults entitled Dust City, was published in October 2010. In 2006, he completed an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. The story is narrated by the son of the wolf who killed Little Red Riding Hood.

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    Personal life

    Robert Paul Weston was born October 21, 1975 in Dover, England.