Press

Awards

Sask Book Awards

• Winner, First Book Award, 2017 (Along Comes a Wolfe)
• Finalist, Young Adult, 2019 (Shepherd’s Watch)
• Nominated, City of Regina Book Award, 2023 (Shepherd’s Call)

Moonbeam Awards

• Gold Winner, Best First Book - Chapter Book, 2017 (Along Comes a Wolfe)
• Gold Winner, Young Adult Fiction - General, 2022 (Shepherd’s Call)
• Silver Winner, Young Adult Fiction - Horror/Mystery, 2017 (Shepherd’s Watch)
• Bronze Winner, Young Adult Fiction - Horror/Mystery, 2019 (Shepherd’s Watch)

High Plains Book Awards

• Finalist, Young Adult, 2017 (Along Comes a Wolfe)
• Finalist, Young Adult Book, 2019 (Shepherd’s Watch)

Next Generation Indie Book Awards

• Finalist, Second Novel, 2019 (Shepherd’s Watch)
• Finalist, Young New Adult, 2019 (Shepherd’s Watch)

Other Recognition

• 2022 Story Monsters Approved Winner (Shepherd’s Call)
• Winner, Briarpatch Creative Writing Contest Hometown, 2012 (“But We Do It Anyway”)
• Quarter-Finalist, Blue Cat Screenplay Competition, 2010 (The Drowned)

Books

Shepherd & Wolfe Mystery Series (with Dion Counios)

• Shepherd’s Call (2022)
• Shepherd’s Watch (2017)
• Along Comes a Wolfe (2016)
• Wolfe’s Blood (forthcoming)

Publications

Short Fiction

• “But We Do It Anyway” (2012) - Winner, Briarpatch Creative Writing Contest Hometown
• “Mammoth” (2014) - Published in Swift, Flowing

Essays & Articles

• “Four Lessons I Learned Becoming a Writer”, Regina Public Library, September 2019
• “Three Great Writing Books to Consider Character”, Regina Public Library, January 2020
• “Five Library Resources to Help Write Your Feature Film”, Regina Public Library, January 2020

Film Criticism
Contributed to Directory of World Cinema: Africa (2015):

• “Allah Tantou: God’s Will Be Done” (David Achkar, 1991)
• “Aristotle’s Plot” (Jean-Pierre Bekolo, 1996)
• “A Time There Was: Stories From the Last Days of Kenya Colony” (Karen Feiertag and Donald McWilliams, 2009)
• “The Journey of Cape Verde” (Guenny K. Pires, 2004)
• “Zahra’s Mother Tongue” (Fatimi Sissani, 2011)

Screenwriting

Feature Scripts

• Darkness (2014) - In Development
• Black Bear (2013) - Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Project
• The Drowned (2010) - Quarter-Finalist, Blue Cat Screenplay Competition
• The Wakeless (2009) - Previously Optioned

For interviews, readings, or other inquiries, please email me at me@davidgane.com