Mieke de Vries ​(he/him)

I am a creative writer and editor focusing on the genres of creative non-fiction, fiction, and documentary film. I am a proofreader and copyeditor.

Writing

• The Art of Repair, Short Documentary Film, funded by the CBC Creator Network, Story Editor and Co-Producer, in production, forthcoming November 2024
• “How To Give Yourself a Subcutaneous Testosterone Injection”, won 2nd place in the Creative Nonfiction Collective & The Humber Literary Review CNF Contest, May 2024
• "Bodymagic: An Anatomy Of My Integumentary System", 2nd place in The Ampersand Review's 2023 Essay Contest, published in The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing: Issue No. 6
• The Straight Agenda, Short Documentary Film, Writer and Story Editor, 2022
• Q&A with Andrea Actis, Victoria Festival of Authors, September 2021
• Q&A with Troy Sebastian|nupqu ʔak·ǂam̓, Victoria Festival of Authors, September 2021
• Q&A with Dallas Hunt, Victoria Festival of Authors, August 2021
• The Horrible & the Sublime: Mieke deVries in Conversation with Andar Wärje, The Malahat Review, June 2021
• Subjunctive, Essay, Essay Daily, December 2021​

Editing

• "Jane" by Tanya Ng Cheong, The Ex-Puritan​, Spring 2024
• "Thoughts from a Beirut Party Bus: Cultural Performance as Resistance" by Nooralhuda Al-Qayem, The Ex-Puritan​, Spring 2024
• "The Piano Teacher: On Grief and Queerness" by Khashayar Mohammadi, The Ex-Puritan​, Winter 2023
• "Heartwood" by Kaye Miller, The Ex-Puritan, Fall 2023
• "Listen" by Sylvia Stopforth, The Ex-Puritan, Summer 2023
• "Pretend" by Mubanga Kalimamukwento, The Ex-Puritan, Spring 2023
• "I Am Your Racial Rorschach Test" by Archana Sridhar, The Ex-Puritan, Winter 2023
• "Dagger in the Dragon's Eye" by Ellen Chang-Richardson, The Ex-Puritan, Fall 2022​