Barry Callaghan


Barry Morley Joseph Callaghan is a Canadian author, poet and anthologist. 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.
He won the 2019 ReLit Award for short fiction for his collection All the Lonely People.
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 – 1978As Close as We Came – 1982The Black Queen Stories – 1982The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings – 1989Stone Blind Love – 1989Canadian Travellers in Italy – 1989 Exile: The First Fifteen Years – 1992 Lords of Winter and of Love: A Book of Canadian Love Poems in English and French – 1993]'When Things Get Worse – 1993A Kiss is Still a Kiss – 1995This Ain't No Healing Town: Toronto Stories – 1996 Barrelhouse Kings – 1998We Wasn't Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War – 2001 Young Bloods: Stories from Exile 1972–2001 – 2001 Between Trains – 2007Beside Still Waters – 2009All the Lonely People: Collected Stories - 2018