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# Hi! I'm Sadie McCarney

Writer & Spicy Brain

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## Award-winning. Cliché-busting.

For over 10 years, I've been writing about and through mental illness and neurodivergence.  I work with words and line breaks to uncover long-buried truths and redefine what it means to "be well".

(You hear that voice too, right?)

I wrote the found performance text/ mental health memoir/chapbook *Head War* (Frog Hollow Press, 2021), with words and phrases taken from my mental health records after a 2013 inpatient psychiatric stay.  

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*Head War* won the 2021 Oscar Wilde Award for Work Celebrating Non-Conformity at the Island Fringe Festival. It has now been transformed into a short film, to educate and enlighten diverse audiences about the realities of living (and thriving!) with mental illness.

My full-length books are *Live Ones *(University of Regina Press, 2019; tall-lighthouse uk, 2020), *Your Therapist Says It's Magical Thinking* (ECW Press, 2023; winner of the 2024 Prince Edward Island Book Award in Poetry and shortlisted for the J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award), and *The Bright Afters* (ECW Press, forthcoming in 2026). My work has appeared in places including *Best Canadian Poetry, The Walrus, Canadian Literature, EVENT, Foglifter, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, CV2, Lunch Ticket,* and *Grain;* in 2023, I won *Grain*'s Short Grain Poetry Contest.

I live on Prince Edward Island, Canada, with my family and two quirky cats. 

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