Kenneth J. Harvey

Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey (born January 22, 1962) is a Canadian writer and filmmaker from Newfoundland and Labrador.

Harvey's debut short story collection, Directions for an Opened Body, was published in 1990. He followed up in 1992 with his first novel, Brud, which was a shortlisted finalist for the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1993.

His 2003 novel The Town That Forgot How to Breathe was his first book to be republished in the United States, and was the winner of the Thomas Head Raddall Award in 2004. In 2006, his novel Inside won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Winterset Award, and was longlisted for the 2006 Giller Prize.

His 2008 novel Blackstrap Hawco was longlisted for the Giller Prize in 2008.

As a filmmaker Harvey is most noted for his 2018 documentary film Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt, a profile of artist Christopher Pratt which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019, and won the award for Best Canadian Film at the 2019 International Festival of Films on Art.

In 2000, with his wife Janet, Harvey founded the ReLit Awards, an annual award for independent Canadian literature. Management of the ReLits was taken over in 2021 by his daughter, Katherine Alexandra Harvey.

Books

 * Directions for an Opened Body - 1990
 * Brud - 1992
 * Stalkers - 1994
 * The Hole That Must Be Filled - 1995
 * Nine-Tenths Unseen - 1996
 * Kill The Poets: Anti-verse - 1998
 * The Flesh So Close - 1998
 * The Great Misogynist - 1998
 * Everyone Hates a Beauty Queen - 1998
 * The Woman in the Closet - 1998
 * Skin Hound - 2000
 * Little White Squaw: A White Woman's Story of Abuse, Addiction, and Reconciliation - 2002, with Eve Mills Nash
 * The Town That Forgot How to Breathe - 2003
 * Shack: The Cutland Junction Stories - 2004
 * Inside - 2006
 * Blackstrap Hawco - 2008
 * Reinventing the Rose - 2011

Films

 * I'm 14 and I Hate the World - 2011
 * box
 * It's a Girl
 * Remains
 * Geek Assassin - 2013
 * It Was Sunny The Day I Killed Her - 2015
 * The Immigrant's Handbook
 * The Drinking Life - 2017
 * I Heard the Birch Tree Whisper in the Night: Gerald Squires on Creation and Death - 2017
 * Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt - 2018
 * It Was All So Wonderful: The Everyday Magic of Mary Pratt - 2019
 * The Incredible Vanishing Sisters - 2022
 * What the Darkness Cannot Extinguish: The Storytelling Madness of Clifford George - 2023
 * The Governor of Georgetown - 2024

TV

 * The Slattery Street Crockers (Writer/Director/Producer)
 * B U C K Y (Writer/Director/Producer)
 * Lore (Writer/Director/Producer)