Barry Callaghan

This article is about the Canadian author and poet. For the Scottish footballer, see Barry Callaghan (footballer).

Barry Morley Joseph Callaghan CM (born July 5, 1937) is a Canadian author, poet and anthologist.^[1] He is currently the editor-in-chief of Exile Quarterly. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he is the son of late Canadian novelist and short story writer, Morley Callaghan. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto.

Callaghan in 2007.

He won the 2019 ReLit Award for short fiction for his collection All the Lonely People.^[2] In 2006 Priscita Uppal edited Barry Callaghan: Essays on His Works a volume in the Guernica Editions 'Essential Writers Series' under general editor Joseph Pivato.

Selected bibliography

• The Hogg Poems and Drawings – 1978
• As Close as We Came – 1982
• The Black Queen Stories – 1982
• The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings – 1989
• Stone Blind Love – 1989
• Canadian Travellers in Italy – 1989 (editor)
• Exile: The First Fifteen Years – 1992 (editor)
• Lords of Winter and of Love: A Book of Canadian Love Poems in English and French – 1993]
• 'When Things Get Worse – 1993
• A Kiss is Still a Kiss – 1995
• This Ain't No Healing Town: Toronto Stories – 1996 (editor)
• Barrelhouse Kings – 1998
• We Wasn't Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War – 2001 (edited with Bruce Meyer)
• Young Bloods: Stories from Exile 1972–2001 – 2001 (editor)
• Between Trains – 2007
• Beside Still Waters – 2009
• All the Lonely People: Collected Stories - 2018