Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 13, 2026
Gail Taylor

Gail Taylor

Gail Taylor is a new Canadian writer who earned the Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto in 2009 with Honors and completed the writers' program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her fiction was a winner in the Random House Canada student contest in 2007, short listed for the Random House prize in 2008, and short listed for the Marina Nemat award in 2009.

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About Gail Taylor

Gail Taylor is a new Canadian writer who earned the Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto in 2009 with Honors and completed the writers' program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her fiction was a winner in the Random House Canada student contest in 2007, short listed for the Random House prize in 2008, and short listed for the Marina Nemat award in 2009. She has written corporate reviews for government, published non-fiction articles, and has several short stories appearing in literary reviews in 2010 and 2011.

See other stories by Gail Taylor in her new book, Tornado and Other Seasons, available from Punkin House Press.

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  • Caravan

    Gail Taylor is a new Canadian writer who earned the Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto in 2009 with Honors and completed the writers' program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her fiction was a winner in the Random House Canada student contest in 2007, short listed for the Random House prize in 2008, and short listed for the Marina Nemat award in 2009.

  • Night Class

    Is it what you learn from a teacher of writing, or does the class show you what you need to learn about yourself?

  • A Good Belief Is Hard to Find

    Science and reason can explain much, but which perceives clearly, the mind or the heart, when something has no reason at all?