Stories from a life well lived.
Wisdom from a heart full of love.
Perspective earned and shared.
Welcome to the creative universe of Lulu Keating Writer. Dive into a collection of stories, poems, and articles that spark imagination and resonate with emotions.
Writing
Lulu Keating, Writer
Lulu Keating has a long career as an artist, first as a filmmaker and now a writer. Her work has been published in Geist Magazine, Parallelogram, The Globe and Mail, and North of Ordinary. In her hometown, Dawson City Yukon (settled during the Klondike Goldrush) the prize for her winning story was a gold nugget. Keating’s collection of short stories, Splinter and Shard, is published by ECW Press. She has read from her collection at literary festivals across Canada, in Greece and Mexico. Currently she is working on two novels, Klondike Codfish and Astrid’s Vision.
Splinter and Shard
Short Stories
A smashing debut collection from award-winning filmmaker Lulu Keating, Splinter & Shard is the debut story collection by acclaimed filmmaker- turned-writer Lulu Keating. Vivid and precise, the stories in this collection offer an uncompromising journey into what it means to be human.
Keating catches her characters at their pivotal moments of discovery, self-reckoning, and change. A dutiful mother of grown children learns a life-shattering secret about two of her children that upends her life. A macho man in mid-life must reconcile himself to his new role as a cosmetics consultant. A young woman, pregnant and unhappy, travels to the Yukon to bury her husband. An old woman turns away from her family to bond with the convicts of the small jail next door. An orphaned girl stumbles onto an unexpected connection with a stranger.
In these stories, flaws and strengths are writ large as characters fumble toward redemption. From flash fiction to deep-dive character studies, Splinter & Shard turns over the rocks of everyday experience to reveal the psychological and philosophical truths underneath.
The stories range back and forth in time, from Nova Scotia to the Yukon (with a side trip to Florida), and explore universal themes — loss, infidelity, faith, mortality, and love.
Living in Yukon Territory, Canada
Lulu Keating, daughter of Pauline Jackson and Bernard Keating, lives on the traditional territory of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation.
Seen here reading in the historic 98 Hotel, on the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation. Lulu Keating is inspired by and writes on the traditional territories of all 14 sovereign Yukon First Nations.
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