Fact & Feeling

Further

I’m a fast-feeler and a slow-steeper.

Hello! I am currently on the second draft of Catch Along, my debut Canadian voice-driven, experimental upmarket novel. My short story, Slippery Mind Allegiance, was published by The New Quarterly in 2024 (Canada), and Driving Under an Influence was published by Superlative Literary Journal in June 2025 (UK). I have a 48k-word completed YA novel manuscript, Helen and the Prawn, on the back burner.

My writing blends swift-paced dialogue and rich narrative with dry wit and aching tenderness. These fiction stories are rooted in my own lived experience and shaped by the truths others have trusted me with.

Thank you for the fierce kindness of your curiosity. 🤍

Gillie

It’s pronounced Jillie. My pronouns are she/her. I’m a Canadian, bisexual, neurodiverse, white, cis-female—mother, co-parent, daughter, partner, dog parent, friend, settler, traveler, extroverted introvert, and deep feeler. I’m alcohol-free, anxiety-tuned, tear-ready, whip-smart and direct. I believe in pitching in without conditions and the intrinsic responsibility to carry words with meaning and care. Empathy is human.

Publications

Slippery Mind Allegiance

Published in The New Quarterly’s Issue 169: Chance Reunions, © Gillie Easdon, 2024

Driving Under An Influence

June 2025 Open Story 2 | Superlative

Pieces

The New Quarterly reading of Slippery Mind Allegiance

Finding the Form with Gillie Easdon

Ma Thoughts Blog 2010

Whiskerum: The Bedtime Edition

Read by Wildsound - Coming Soon!

"Tonally it was really sharp and I appreciated how you make the reader work for the deeper sense of what's going on. And more than being merely deft in technical terms, the way you teased out a complex paired backstory, the gradual relinquishment of meaning lent the whole narrative a plangent quality…I was moved as much as I was impressed."

Geordie Williamson, publisher of Picador Australia, former chief literary critic of The Australian, and outgoing editor of Best Australian Essays, on Slippery Mind Allegiance
"Gillie’s stories deliver emotional punches and clarity of meaning with beautiful language; her prose is tender, provocative, and precise. The characters linger in my imagination, joining a cast of literary companions dwelling in my heart."

Jen Wilson, Author and Coach, The Heart of Homestay
"Gillie is a rare writing talent—incisive, articulate and, above all, creative. Reading Gillie's work has always left me smiling, nodding my head or pleasantly surprised at some unique observation or construct she has included."

Leslie Anthony, Award-winning writer, editor and creative director