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Kelly Watt is a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer. Her new book of poetry and flash prose--The Weeping Degree: How Astrology Saved me From Suicide , Wild Rising Press, (2024) was an Amazon Bestseller on release and has won international awards: Distinguished Favourite in the Independent Press Awards, U.S. (2026); a Bronze Medal with The Wishing Shelf Book Awards, U.K. (2025); as well as longlisted for a Whistler Independent Book Award, Canada (2026) and a Hamilton Literary Arts Award (2025). Watt is also the author of the gothic novel, Mad Dog, Doubleday Canada (2001) and the mini travel book, Camino Meditations H.S.E., U.S. (2014). She lives in the Ontario countryside with her partner and a shy sheepadoodle.
Kelly Watt has taken the darkest, most horrifying moments of her young life and made them into a groundbreaking work of beautiful words.
--Ruth Edgett, reviewer, blogger, author
What do dead girls need in the afterlife? They need the poems of Kelly Watt...
--Paul Lisson, editor of HA&L Magazine
Praise for
The Weeping Degree
SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE
Check out Kelly's reading and Ongoing Virtual Interactive Poetry Installation, The Telling Pages or Say Goodbye to Your Old Life. Add your voice to this lived experience. To participate, sign up for the newsletter and/or answer the Telling Questions questionnaire. (Trigger warning. Some difficult issues are addressed.)
Contact Me
Kelly Watt is available for speaking engagements, and book clubs. To request an appearance or book her for a conference, please contact her agent, Olga Filina at olga@fiveotterliterary.com.