~ Happy that my poem “Vancouver Future” is included in the wildfires-inspired anthology “Red Eyes and Tired Lungs” – Paperback releasing on April 30, 2024 – Available here in eBook: https://books2read.com/u/bM2dQB
~ Sweet – My New England story “Shot with Light” was shortlisted for the Lascaux Prize. Their anthologies are seriously beautiful…
~ Yay, one of my favourite short stories, “The Fury and the Words” was short-listed for the The 2023 inaugural Nona Macdonald Heaslip $15,000 “Best Canadian Short Story” Competition and Award in memory of Morley Callaghan https://www.exilequarterly.com/poetry-and-fiction-competitions/
~ So pleased that my novella, “Correcting the Flight Path” was longlisted for The Fugere Book Prize for Finely Crafted Novellas! https://regalhousepublishing.com/2023-fugere-book-prize-longlist/
~ Perfect summer reading on the patio, helping to judge stories for the latest Green Stories Writing Competition https://www.greenstories.org.uk/aboutus/
~ Read “Rent Asunder” in the Summer “Solstice” https://solsticelitmag.org/content/rent-asunder/
~ My interview for the “Teens of Tomorrow” anthology launch is now up on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OWYiH6zs4Lk
~ Sweet… My story “Rent Asunder” is a “Solstice” Editors’ Pick, and will be published in their 2021 summer edition.
~ Being an overseas Reader for the Premio Strega was, to say the least, a breathtaking ride. 12 books (in italiano!) in 2 months. Still trying to figure out what’s different about Italian and North American narrative. Qualcosa c’e` di sicuro…
~ “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”, which was previously longlisted for the “Lascaux Review” Prize in Short Fiction, placed in the Top 10 in the 2020 Odd Voice Out Short Story Contest, and will appear summer 2021 in the UK anthology”Teens of Tomorrow”, a volume of future-focused diverse fiction for teens.
~ Thrilled that my short story “The Fury and the Words” was longlisted for the 2020 Alpine Fellowship
~ 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!
~ My first flash fiction acknowledgement: “Raining Mad” was on the Flash 500 Short List: Flash Fiction 2019 Quarter 4
~ 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
~ 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”