Sacha John Bissonnette

My stories come from people, mostly — interactions I witness, scenes I like or don’t like playing out on screen or in real life. Lately, a lot of them come from Ottawa.

[ Fiction ] [ Flash ] [ Poetry ]

Honours
Pushcart Prize nominee
Best Small Fictions nominee
Wigleaf Top 50, 2023 & 2024
Now writing
A short fiction collection
Sacha John Bissonnette, in black and white, resting his hand against his face

[ Latest ]

  1. A Pact (opens in a new tab)

    Reckon Review, 2026

  2. About Nicky (opens in a new tab)

    Bull, 2026

  3. Preserves (opens in a new tab)

    Lunch Ticket, 2025

All 54 pieces

Fiction in

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Start Here

Four stories to read first.

  1. Glass Birds (opens in a new tab)

    “After Jacob, I found a surgeon in Chicago.”

    Wigleaf, 2021

  2. The Cost of Crab (opens in a new tab)

    “It feels more like a pleasantly awkward drug deal than a date.”

    Terrain.org, 2022

  3. Valencia (opens in a new tab)

    “When Javier’s fingers run along my spine, I hear the sea outside my childhood home.”

    Witness Magazine, 2023

  4. The House Across the Street (opens in a new tab)

    “My wife thinks that bad things happen in the house across the street.”

    The Citron Review, 2022

    Wigleaf Top 50, 2023 · Best Small Fictions nominee

All 54 Pieces

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Now

[ News ]

  1. Writing in Montegiovi, Italy, at the La Baldi Residency.

  2. Artist in residence at the Napoule Art Foundation.

  3. “A Pact” is out in Reckon Review. (opens in a new tab)

  4. “About Nicky” is out in Bull. (opens in a new tab)

  5. Talked to Apt613 about finding fiction in everyday Ottawa. (opens in a new tab)

[ On the desk ]

  • A story collection

    Short fiction, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

  • A comic

    A comic book adaptation of one of his stories.

[ Newsletter ] Coming Soon

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The Writer

Sacha John Bissonnette, smiling, in black-framed glasses and a black shirt

Sacha Bissonnette is an Afro-Trinidadian, French Canadian short story writer from Ottawa, Canada.

His work has been nominated three times for Best Small Fictions and twice for the Pushcart Prize. His story “How We Were Fiction” placed third in the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Competition, and his stories “The House Across the Street” and “Katie Says” were selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 in 2023 and 2024.

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Contact

Editors, festivals, residencies, readings, classrooms and rights inquiries.