Thank you, ReLit Awards, for honouring STOOP CITY in the category of short fiction, 2021. I’m utterly entranced by the prize … the coveted ReLit ring designed by Christopher Kearney of Newfoundland. Each of the four moveable dials are struck with the entire alphabet, so I will be spelling out Read more…
Heartfelt thanks to www.arts.on.ca , its hardworking staff, the jury members and readers at independent Ontario based publishers. I’m pleased and humbled to acknowledge OAC funding from the Recommender Grants for Writers Project as well as the Literary Creation Projects. This encouragement will help me take a little time away Read more…
Quill & Quire – Posted: April 19, 2021 ReLit, the prize celebrating books by independent presses, has announced the winners of its 2021 awards. The prize has returned after being dormant for four years, and is celebrating by retroactively honouring winners for 2018, 2019, and now 2021. The celebration will conclude on Read more…
CBC Books · Posted: April 07, 2021
After a four-year hiatus, the ReLit Awards have returned. The ReLit Awards honour the best Canadian books published by independent presses. There are three categories: novel, short fiction and poetry.
Tarry This Night (Arsenal Pulp Press) makes the longlist for the 2018 Sunburst Award For Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic! I am totally stoked and humbled to have this book included in such incredible company. Check out the full list and please, read all of these exceptional books. Short List will be announced at the end of June.
I’m so grateful to learn that “Last Call at the Dogwater Inn,” a new story from my unpublished collection, won first place in the Machigonne Fiction contest, adjudicated by Adam Braver. It will be featured in The New Guard Volume V, forthcoming Spring 2016. What an honour!To learn more about Read more…
‘Now is the Time to Light Fires’, a story from my brand newest, unpublished speculative collection, is a semi-finalist in the Psychopomp Magazine 2015 fiction contest. Hurray! Check out psychopompmag.com and see what they are up to. Special thanks to judge Kate Bernheimer (https://www.katebernheimer.com/)
A long time dream is coming true thanks to the generous Canada Council for the Arts! The cats and I will be working on The Hard Fast, my beloved and creepy new novel, as a full time job. To celebrate, I will wear a real uniform to my writing desk Read more…
The 2013 CZP/RANNU Fund Writing Award selections have been announced by Judges Craig Davidson, Richard Larson, Caitlin Sweet, and tie-breaking judge Cory Doctorow. The Fund, in collaboration with ChiZine Publications, offers two awards per year, one for fiction, one for poetry, and is granted to two writers of speculative literature. Read more…
HAREBELLHoofy’s idyllic life as a young hare in the Don Valley is threatened by a feline predator. Hoofy’s verdant world is actually a morphine induced hallucination; in reality, Hoofy, a homeless youth, hangs between life and death in an emergency medical clinic. HAREBELL is a top five finalist for the Read more…