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Chad Pelley

Chad Pelley’s fiction has been recognized by a dozen literary awards.

His debut novel, Away from Everywhere, was a Coles bestseller, and was adapted into a film starring Jason Priestley, Joanne Kelly, and Shawn Doyle. Away from Everywhere was also shortlisted for the ReLit Award, the Canadian Author’s Association’s Emerging Author Award, and it won the CBC NLAC Emerging Artist Award. His second novel, Every Little Thing, was also shortlisted for the ReLit award.

His collection of short stories, Four Letter Words, was shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Forward INDIES book of the year.

He is currently working on a novel about a society opposed to what's been imposed on them, set 30 years in the future


the Works of Chad Pelley