Christine Higdon named 2025 Hideout writer-in-residence

Ontario-based novelist Christine Higdon has been named the 2025 writer-in-residence at The Hideout in Prince Edward Island. Now in its sixth year, the Hideout Residencies welcome writers, artists, and self-care practitioners from across Canada and internationally to PEI’s south shore each spring and fall. The Hideout writer-in-residence program invites a prominent Canadian writer to visit the Island each year to engage in new creative work. The 2024 Hideout writer-in-residence was Montreal writer Christopher DiRaddo.

Christine Higdon’s latest novel, Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue, has been wonderfully reviewed. It is one of ten nominees for the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading 2025 Evergreen Award. The audiobook won the 2024 Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Audiobook Narration – Fiction. Her first novel, The Very Marrow of Our Bones, won the Foreword Reviews Editor’s Choice Fiction Prize. Her short fiction has won a National Magazine Award and been published in literary journals. She has been shortlisted and longlisted for CBC non-fiction and fiction prizes and currently lives near Lake Ontario in Mimico.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Christine as our second writer-in-residence,” says Trevor Corkum, co-owner of The Hideout. “Joshua and I have been huge fans of her work for some time and know she’s a secret Maritimer at heart.”

Higdon will spend a week at The Hideout next fall.