About me

Finnian Burnett (they/them) is a keynote speaker, including for the Surrey International Writers’ Conference (2024) and When Words Collide (2025), and has presented at festivals such as Word in the Street, Wine Country Writers Festival, Golden Crown Literary Society Conference, and Kamloops Young Authors. They are the 2025 Author-in-Residence for the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society annual retreat in Calgary, Alberta.

A long-time teacher and presenter and passionate advocate for the flash fiction form, Finnian is the author of the novellas-in-flash The Clothes Make the Man (Ad Hoc Fiction) and The Price of Cookies (Off Topic Publishing). Their forthcoming novellas, Red Shirts Sometimes Survive (December 2025) and Ravens Don’t Get High Blood Pressure (2026), continue their exploration of eclectic queer storytelling.

Finnian’s work has been recognized as a CBC Literary Prize finalist and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Their debut novel, Arthur Undressed, is currently on submission with their agent, Stacey Kondla of The Rights Factory

Finnian is available for library visits, school talks, and conference presentations across Canada, the UK, and Europe. They currently live in beautiful British Columbia with their wife and way too many books.