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- Leo_McKay,_Jr. abstract "This article is about the Canadian author. For the American deputy cabinet secretary, see Leo Mackay, Jr..Leo McKay, Jr. (born June 19, 1964) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer from Stellarton, Nova Scotia. He also is a periodic contributor to the Globe and Mail.McKay's debut short story collection, Like This, was short-listed for the Giller Prize in 1995 and received the Dartmouth Book Award for fiction in 1996.His first novel, Twenty-Six, was published in 2003. It became a national bestseller, and won the 2004 Dartmouth Book Award.McKay currently teaches English at Cobequid Educational Centre in Truro, Nova Scotia.His latest novel, titled Roll Up The Rim, was self-published in the spring of 2013, and crowd-funded on IndiegogoMcKay was born and raised in the town of Stellarton, Nova Scotia, where he graduated from Stellarton High School in 1982. He grew up in the small working class Stellarton neighborhood called the Red Row, a neighborhood made up of hundred-year-old former mining company duplexes and the tight-knit community of working-class people who live in them. Both of his parents grew up in the same neighborhood. His mother, Georgina Bellick, was the daughter of Eastern European immigrants. His father, Leo McKay Sr., who lived in the Red Row until his death in 2011, was a rivetter at the railcar factory in nearby Trenton before becoming a career labour leader, social activist, New Democrat politician, and eventually a member of Stellarton Town Council.Leo McKay Jr. studied English at St. Francis Xavier University, French at Laval, Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, and Education at Dalhousie. He lived in Asia for four years in his young adulthood.Social Media ExperimenterMcKay became one of the first literary writers who had already achieved a certain amount of acclaim in traditional print media to embrace the power of the new, internet based, social media. During the 2010 CBC Canada Reads competition, McKay used Facebook, Twitter, and especially YouTube, to promote the nomination of his 2003 novel Twenty-six as one of the Best Canadian Novels of the previous decade, using an ambitious if uneven series of hand-shot, self-produced videos called "Twenty-six Reasons Why You Should Vote for Twenty-six For Canada Reads 2010". The novel made the 40 book long list, and that success spurred McKay to further use of social media as a tool to promote his literary work.In the Spring of 2012, McKay used an online funding site, Indiegogo.com, to fund the independent publication of a new novel, Roll Up the Rim. That campaign raised $10000 in 30 days, and was chosen by Indiegogo.com as an example of how to run a successful online funding campaign.".
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