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Christian Fennell

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Before the first light of each day wakes the possibility of everything.

Christian Fennell is an author, writer, and editor whose fiction and essays explore the emotional and moral tensions of contemporary life. Raised in Ontario, Canada, and shaped by years working across literature, film, and publishing, his work often centers on fractured identities, loneliness, memory, violence, redemption, and the human search for meaning within unstable cultural landscapes.


Books:
Torrents of Our Time
"Whatever expectations one might have of a book of dark, realist short stories set in rural America, this collection defies them, and instead weaves an elegant song of sadness, dark humour, and strangeness." - Neon Books UK

The Fiddler in the Night
"In essence
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The Real and the Imagined

Love under a big moon.

That is how I came to understand what it was I was writing with each of the three books that form the trilogy, The Real and the Imagined. I promised myself that once they were completed, I would get that tattoo. Today I have it. Just above my left thumb, where I can see it as I continue exploring this thing called writing.

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Published on May 25, 2026 03:41 Tags: american-fiction, litfic, trilogy
Average rating: 4.49 · 47 ratings · 36 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Fiddler in the Night

4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions
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Torrents of Our Time: Twent...

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What I Know About the Human...

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LOVE, GUNS & GOD in America

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings7 editions
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What I Know About the Human Race by Christian  Fennell
"Christian Fennells' Essays and Poetry cross between the Exquisite and the Transgressive.

I was lost as I looked down into his descriptive bottomless dark river pool and as I walked among the cold tombstones.

Dreams and realities converge into heartfelt" Read more of this review »
The Fiddler in the Night by Christian  Fennell
"Gripping

Gripping so that its hard to put down while at the same time you feel you need to look away."
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LOVE, GUNS & GOD in America by Christian  Fennell
"LOVE, GUNS & GOD in America is a fearless, unsettling, and deeply necessary novel one that confronts the fractures of modern America without flinching.

From the opening pages, the story grips with its raw emotional intensity. Following two children fl" Read more of this review »
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“For I am you, torn from our scars.”
Christian Fennell, What I Know About the Human Race: A Collection of Writing

“What I want, is contentment, without meaning, in honest work, and in life too.”
Christian Fennell

“It's always the miles, not time ...”
Christian Fennell, What I Know About the Human Race: A Collection of Writing

“I am a witness, and I am a participant, and yet, life suggests, there is more to it then just that. Find it.”
Christian Fennell, Torrents of Our Time: Twenty-Two Stories

“Great literature is written from the pulse of blood running through the veins of thought, and not by the meaning of it.”
Christian Fennell

“There is a danger in creating our pasts more than we lived them.”
Christian Fennell, In a Small Town

“In her future, will be these tears remembered.”
Christian Fennell, Tincture Journal, Issue Two, Winter 2013

“Read. Read a lot. Go home. Be quiet. Write. Write some more. It will soon be discovered if you are a writer.”
Tennessee Williams

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