Stephens Gerard Malone
Stephens Gerard Malone is a Nova Scotia writer whose early works included writing book reviews —and doing layout—for WayvesMagazine. While his early novels have buried Queer themes and characters, it’s the growing phenomena of Queer baiting in culture, and celebrated mainstream gay stories in literature and film being written by, or portrayed by, non-gay men that’s forced his change in direction. As a writer, there can’t be degrees of being out. Now more than ever, “If we don’t tell our stories, someone else controls the narrative.”
Afterwords Literary Festival board member
Books
- Endless Bay (written under the name Laura Fairburn) 1994
- Big Town: A Novel of Africville 2011. Seventeen-year-old Early Okander lives on the outskirts of the Halifax community of Africville. As he and his friends try to sort out what relocation might mean for the community, they also struggle to come to terms with their own problems.
- 5 Minutes de plus à Berlin 2011
- I Still Have A Suitcase In Berlin 2008
- Miss Elva 2005
- The History of Rain 2021 An injured WWI soldier finds solace in gardening and buries himself in this work. Rain finds himself lured into the intricate and lavish world of landscape gardening. He travels the world to create magnificent gardens for celebrities and to chase his unrequited love, Lily.
- Jumbo 2023 Historical fiction following the prized African elephant who stole the show of the Barnum & Bailey Circus — and the hearts of people around the world — exploring exploitation, unrequited love, and the unbreakable bond between living things.
- In progress: Two Boys In A Yellow Wood, a coming-of-age story following a closeted gay boy on an air force base outside of Ottawa, under the spotlight of Expo '67 and the shadow of the Separatist Movement and the October Crisis. The novel will be published in the spring of 2026.
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