Kevin Andrew Heslop's most recent work as a journalist, curator, art critic, filmmaker, poet, and author has lately appeared or is forthcoming with Amphora, Centre [3], Centred Magazine, The Ex-Puritan, The Fiddlehead, and The Walrus. His sophomore poetry collection will be published by Biblioasis in the Spring of 2027. 

 

      Kevin currently divides time between Saint Andrews, New Brunswick; São Paulo, Brazil; and Tbilisi, Georgia. Since 2023, he has held artist residencies at the Belgrade Art Studio (Serbia), Arteles Creative Centre (Finland), BRAŻŻA (France), Casa Na Ilha (Brazil), Kaaysá (Brazil), Earthwise (Denmark), Ørslev Kloster (Denmark), SAIKONEON (Japan), The Mauser Ecohouse (Costa Rica), Teat(r)o Oficina (Brazil), and The Seamus Heaney Centre (Ireland). Conversations he recorded along the way will appear in two volumes of Craft, Consciousness: Dialogues about the Arts (Guernica Editions 2027 & 2028). 

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        Heslop released both a 2021 poetry and a 2026 non-fiction debut to critical acclaim:

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      the correct fury of your why is a mountain (Gordon Hill Press) was hailed as "among the most promising poetic projects to come out of Canada in recent years" (Johnstone), a "sublime poetic debut" (Lockhart) "read with admiration" (Coetzee), "a gestalt of what it can assimilate" (Crymble) "bursting from the pages in an oceanic radicalization of empathy, grief and utter fucking joy in livingness and language" (Bennett) "no poetry lover should be without" (Paré). 

 

       The Writing on the Wind's Wall: Dialogues about 'Medical Assistance in Dying' (Guernica Editions), a "crucial resource" (Harder) in "antidote to absolutism" (Robinson) "unlike anything else before it" (Gripp), a "moving and profound," (Faflak) "timely and important" (Bassnett) "experiential reflection on the greys" (Li) "of euthanasia and the sociopolitical realities that inform it" (Chesnut), "essential reading for anyone touched by the complexities of MAiD" (Plotzke), "a book worthy of returning to again and again as a window to both reflection and discovery" (Centivany), "a moving tribute to the complexities of what it is to be human" (Putnam), "exemplifies how public discourse benefits when difficult questions are approached through sustained dialogue rather than ideological certainty" (Koster).​

 

​     Between these literary debuts, Heslop's 2023 directorial debut, an anthology interpreting the words of poets Catriona Wright, Paola Ferrante, Brandon Wint, Shane Neilson, Dominik Parisien, Arleen Paré, Julie Bruck, Sile Englert, Jenny Berkel, Susan Holbrook, Spenser Smith, Sachiko Murakami, and Shaun Robinson, garnered prizes from dozens of film festivals around the world, including: 8 & Halfilm Awards, the Berlin Shorts Award, the Digital Griffix Film Awards, the Independent Shorts Awards International Film Festival, the Indie Short Fest, the Latitude Film Awards, the Milan Gold Awards, the Paris Play Film Festival, the Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cift, the Toronto Short Film Festival, the Vancouver International Movie Awards, the Vancouver Women Film Festival, and the Vesuvio International Movie Awards.​​​​​​​​​​

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       Heslop's current work includes half a dozen books (with Cactus Press, Biblioasis, Guernica Editions x2, Guernica World Editions x2), a new play (with playwright Camille Intson), a book of translations from his ancestor Ambrosius Stub's 18th-century Danish (with John Mason), a debut television series (set in St. Andrews, New Brunswick), and a debut feature film (set in São Paulo).​ In harmony with his work in the arts and culture sector, as a creative consultant and venture capitalist Heslop supports select companies dedicated to leveraging AI and surgical robotics to foster affordable well-being. Having served from the Board of the non-profit Changing Ways for five years, he is currently a member of The Documentary Organization of Canada, The League of Canadian Poets, the New Brunswick Filmmakers' Co-op, MediaNB, The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick, and The Writers' Union of Canada. ​​​The self-described "polydisciplinary doofus" also maintains active daimoku (6 years), TM (1) & BJJ (1) practices.​