Jillian Grant Shoichet is a writer and editor based on Vancouver Island.

An idyllic childhood in pastoral southwestern British Columbia (where nothing happens unless someone sets things in motion) meant that from an early age Jillian was a fiction instigator. Over time, friends and family members have come to accept that they will find reflections of themselves in her stories.

Jillian’s work has appeared in various literary, genre and academic journals and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, the PRISM Creative Non-fiction Contest, the Bristol Short Story Prize, the Exeter Story Prize, the Fish Short Memoir Prize, the Surrey International Writers’ Conference Storyteller’s Award, the Writers Union of Canada Short Prose Competition, and the Tilden Canadian Literary Awards (Saturday Night Magazine and CBC Radio). She won 1st prize in the 2025 Exeter Writers Short Story Competition. She placed 3rd in the 2024 Stockholm Writers Festival First 5 Pages Prize and 1st in the 2024 Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition’s genre category.

Jillian is the co-owner and co-operator of Shoichet Editorial and a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada and the Federation of BC Writers. She sometimes writes as Eve Grant.