Richard Kelly Kemick

[8][circular reference] Kemick wrote and produced a five-part podcast, Natural Life, in 2022.

[11] The one-person play, written entirely in iambic pentameter, centres on British Columbia's second premier, Amor De Cosmos, who rose to national prominence before being declared legally insane.

[12] Kemick is also known as a short story writer, having published widely in literary journals and magazines across North America.

In 2017, he was shortlisted for the Journey Prize (a prize for emerging writers), only to be disqualified when "concerns about similarities between his short story 'The Most Human Part of You' and a piece by American author Amy Hempel" emerged;[13] in an interview, Kemick apologized and took responsibility for his story.

[18] In 2016, he won the Canadian National Magazine Award's gold medal in One of a Kind for his story “Playing God” (The Walrus), a reflection on his singular obsession with building Christmas villages.