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“28 writers from across Canada make 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist” CBC Books, Sept 11, 2025
BC & Yukon Book Prize finalist Loghan Paylor on “The Cure for Drowning” North by Northwest, CBC Radio, Aug 2, 2025
“S7 E6: Loghan Paylor on learning to love your story’s antagonist” Megan Cole, Writing the Coast: BC & Yukon Book Prizes podcast, July 20, 2025
“Truth in historical fiction: Can a novel reveal the unseen faces of the Second World War?” Tyler Olsen, Fraser Valley Current, July 4, 2025
“The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor” Wendy Hawkin, The Ottawa Review of Books, June 1, 2025
“Finalists announced for 2025 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes” Cassandra Drudi, Quill & Quire, April 10, 2025
“8 books to read if you loved Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper” CBC Books, March 2025
“The Breakouts 2025: Author Loghan Paylor weaves a fantastical history they could see themselves in” V.S. Wells, The Georgia Straight, Feb 13, 2025
Application for Writers in the Classroom 2025 Now Open, Vancouver Writers Fest, Feb 13, 2025
“76 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Authors in 2024” Jen St. Jude, Chicago Review of Books, Dec 23, 2024
“The Best Queer Books of 2024” Casey Stepaniuk, Autostraddle.com, Dec 18, 2024
“The best Canadian fiction of 2024” CBC Books, Dec 10, 2024
“The Globe 100: The best books of 2024” The Globe and Mail, November 22, 2024
CBC’s The Next Chapter with Antonio Michael Downing: “Loghan Paylor on rewriting queerness back into history”, Nov 9, 2024
“How I Wrote This: A Giller Prize Special Pt 1” hosted by Pamela Hensley, Knockout Media, Nov 1, 2024
“Ten Canadian Authors on the Writing Advice That Changed Their Life” by Carly Fleming, Read Local BC, Oct 20, 2024
“Giller-longlisted novelist coming to Orillia for Big Read Finale” Orillia Matters, Oct 29, 2024
“10 authors featured at Fraser Valley Writers Festival” Mission City Record, Oct 25, 2024
“Fraser Valley Writers Festival: Author Profile Loghan Paylor”, Fraser Valley Writers Festival 2024
“Radio Interview with DJ Denise & Barb Snelgrove at QueerFM” CITR Radio 101.9, Oct 15, 2024
“The CBC Books fall reading list: 51 books to check out this season” CBC Books, Oct 10, 2024
“Radio interview: Alberta Morning with Grant Stovel ” CKUA, Fri Oct 4, 2024
“Giller Prize Spotlight: Loghan Paylor”, Sept 16, 2024
“12 Canadian books make 2024 longlist for $100K Giller Prize” CBC Books, Sept 4, 2024
“CBC Books’ writers to watch: 30 Canadian writers making their mark in 2024” CBC Books, Aug 2, 2024
“Debut Novel Blends Wartime History with Non-Binary Love Story” Kim Mah, The Writer’s Studio, June 21, 2024
“35 Books for Pride month by writers in Canada” CBC Books, June 14, 2024
“10 historical fiction books to transport you this summer” CBC Books, June 11, 2024
“Pride Month Editor’s Picks!” The Miramichi Reader, June 9, 2024
“Canada Reads, Pick These!” St Thomas Public Library, May 15, 2024
“Canadian authors remember Alice Munro and her literary legacy” CBC Books, May 14, 2024
“Oh, Queer Canada: A Reading List for Americans in Search of LGBTQ Canadian History” Rose Sutherland, Literary Hub, April 10, 2024
“Reviewer Glenn Perrett discusses books by Loghan Paylor, Nora Roberts and C.L. Miller” Metroland Media, March 16, 2024
“Otonabee: Books to read this spring” Joanne Culley, The Peterborough Examiner, March 11, 2024
“Review of ‘The Cure for Drowning’ by Loghan Paylor” Lucy E. M. Black, The Miramichi Reader, Feb 29, 2024
“Queer love story at the centre of new Canadian historical novel” Dana Gee, Vancouver Sun, Feb 21, 2024
Radio Interview on The Breakdown with Alison Dore, SiriusXM, Feb 5, 2024
“Palma’s Picks: Queer, trans B.C. author tells compelling love story to bring understanding” Global News, Jan 28, 2024
“A ‘soap opera in the best way possible’ ” Jessica Poon, The British Columbia Review, Jan 24, 2024
“Wartime Canadian romance, an LGBTQ love story and a reckoning of fate and destiny” Brett Josef Grubisic, Toronto Star, Jan 18, 2024

Other Publications

“Training Shift” an interactive narrative piece commissioned by the 2024 Fraser Valley Writers Festival
“The Specimen” prairiefire, Spring 2021 Vol 42.1
“Escape Velocity” Room Magazine, CNF Prize 2018, Vol 41.4
“Transubstantiation” emerge 16, November 2016