About
Chance Freihaut holds a BA in writing and philosophy from the University of Victoria. Through fiction and poetry he navigates guilt, redemption, love, and all the small and great quests we go on in search of meaning in our lives.
His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in This Side of West, The Imagist, The Letter review, L'Esprit Literary Review, and PRISM international as the winner of the 2024 Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms.
His work has also been shortlisted for several awards including The Writer’s Union of Canada Short Prose Competition, Exile Quarterly’s Best Canadian Short Story, and the Malahat Review Open Season award for creative non fiction. He lives on Vancouver Island.
Publications
"Salvo" forthcoming in L'Esprit Literary Review, April 2026
- Finalist for the 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration"Hinoki" in The Letter Review, December 2025
- Winner of the Letter Review Prize for Short Fiction“Check Your Appetite:” a review in This Side of West, October 2024
"The Impossibility of Rain " in PRISM international, August 2024
- Winner of the 2024 Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms"Tell Me, Do Mallards Cry?" in This Side of West, February 2023
Awards
Finalist for L’Esprit Literary Review’s Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, 2026
Longlisted for the Fractured Lit Fractured & Fused flash fiction context
Shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s Open Season Award fro creative nonfiction, 2025
Winner of The Letter Review Short Fiction Prize, 2025
Winner of PRISM international's Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms, 2024
Recipient of the W.P. Kinsella Scholarship in Fiction from the University of Victoria, 2024
Finalist for Exile Quarterly’s Nona Macdonald Heaslip fiction award, 2023
Finalist for The Writers' Union of Canada Short Prose Competition, 2023
Editorial Experience
Fiction Editor for This Side of West (2024)
