~ “About the Bread…”, one of my lockdown flash fiction pieces, is performed on the #littlestoryseries https://www.instagram.com/p/CLptgGKj2Bf/ Listen to it here! https://www.buzzsprout.com/1533946/8011448-little-story-series-quarantine-scenes
~ My story “What We Do Know How To Do” placed in the Top 10 in the 2020 Odd Voice Out Short Story Contest, and will appear this spring in the UK anthology”Teens of Tomorrow”, a volume of future-focused diverse fiction for teens.
~ Well, yay for social media – Somehow, I didn’t know that my piece placed in the 2020 BC Federation of Writers flash fiction contest until someone tweeted a congratulations!
~ Thrilled that my short story “The Fury and the Words” was longlisted for the 2020 Alpine Fellowship
~ Didn’t win, but happy that my cli-fi story “Water & Oil” was shortlisted for the Event Speculative Writing Contest, and longlisted for the Bath Short Story Award (2nd time on their long list!)
~ My collection of short stories, “The Edible and the Beauteous and the Dead”, was one of three shortlisted for the 2016 HarperCollins Publishers/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction!
~ “Figment of Footlights and Reverb” (SEE an excerpt in my 9/2/17 blog post) now appears in the anthology Boundless, published by Compass Flower Press
~ Upcoming publications:
“Water from the Mountain”, at http://www.easystreetmag.com/
~ Pleased that my story “Bread” was a semi-finalist for the 2018 Ruminate William Van Dyke Short Story Prize, and finalist for the 8th annual bosque Fiction Prize: http://bosquepress.com/bosque-journal/
~ Thrilled with this interview:
http://www.richmondsentinel.ca/Lateststories/2037/local-writer-wins-literary-award
~ Times-Colonist article and excerpt from “Bread”