ABOUT
ALISON FISHBURN is a Pushcart-nominated writer, award-winning playwright, performer, and community organizer living in Paris, Ontario.
Born and raised in Florida, she has written plays since 2009, self-producing three full length plays in New York City, directing one. She debuted her solo performance Church Boyfriends & Other Impure Thoughts at the 2023 Hamilton Fringe Festival in Hamilton, Ontario where it won “Best In Venue” at Theatre Aquarius.
Her theater training includes studying & performing improv at Magnet Theater and Upright Citizens Brigade, and studying acting and playwriting at The Barrow Group in New York. She has an art degree from Brooklyn College and an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of King’s College.
Her writing has been published by Longreads, The Outline, and SAND Journal (Issue 24). Her flash creative nonfiction essay “Safety” was nominated by SAND for The Pushcart Prize.
In 2022, she launched the Riverside Reading Series, a non-profit literary organization in that supports writers of all ages and professional levels.
In 2024, she opened Riverside Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in Paris.
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ALISON FISHBURN is a Pushcart-nominated writer, award-winning playwright, performer, and community organizer living in Paris, Ontario. Her writing has been published by Longreads, The Outline, and SAND Journal. Her full-length plays have been produced in New York City, Brooklyn, and Hamilton, Ontario. She has an art degree from Brooklyn College and an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of King’s College. In 2022, she launched Riverside Reading Series, a non-profit literary organization supporting writers of all ages and professional levels. In 2024, she opened Riverside Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in Paris. She teaches creative writing at Wilfrid Laurier University.
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