About

Dave Gregory spent nearly two decades working on cruise ships and sailing around the world before he returned to Canada in 2017, married the woman he dated in high school, and started writing fiction in a bay-windowed, book-lined room.

Dave has been an associate editor for Exposition Review since 2018 and is currently their Fiction Co-Editor. He is also Fiction Editor at Five South and has been a fiction reader for Gigantic Sequins and The Nottingham Review. His short fiction has appeared in more than seventy literary journals.

Accolades:

Dave is the featured author on the podcast Short Story Today, Episode 88, March 13, 2024.

Dave’s story A Recipe for Screaming Raddicchio earned a spot on the Wigleaf Top 50 longlist in 2023.

Dave’s story We’re All in This Sandbox Together received a Best Of The Net nomination & a Pushcart Prize nomination, from Orange Blossom Review in 2022.

Dave is one of 116 writers included in Sweetycat Press’ Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2020 & one of 128 writers included in Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2021.

Out of 5107 entrants, Dave’s story This Monarch Can Fly earned a spot on the longlist for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Out of 5081 entrants, Dave’s story Last Jump Off the Lift Bridge earned a spot on the longlist for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

His story Hoar Frost won an honourable mention in the Canadian Authors Association/Niagara Branch Annual Short Story Contest and appears in the 2019 Anthology “Fifteen Stories High.”

Joran’s Song, a story set on the Greek Island of Syros, was selected as a winner in the 2019 Eden Mills Writers’ Festival – Read at the Fringe event.

Dave’s story Eighteen Dollar Shoes was nominated for a Pushcart Prize (XLIV) in 2018.