Well, okay, not a world tour, but my friend and colleague Astrid Blodgett and I will be doing some readings together this fall and into next spring to support our new books. Astrid’s new story collection This is How You Start to Disappear is forthcoming from University of Alberta Press as part of the Robert…
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Flicker
I’m very happy and excited to officially announce that my new novel, Flicker, will be released on September 15th of this year. Thank you to everyone at University of Calgary Press for helping me bring this book into the world, especially Brave & Brilliant Series editor Aritha van Herk! Plans are in the works for…
Hingston & Olsen Short Story Advent Calendar 2022
I’m excited and honored to have “Dearest Clara” included as story number 17 in the Hingston & Olsen 2022 Short Story Advent Calendar! Thanks again to Michael Hingston and Natalie Olsen, and congratulations to both of them on a gorgeous collection. There are some excellent stories in the anthology so far, and it’s not too…
Sauna writing
Writing in a sauna (or at least thinking about it) is something I have never thought about before, but now that my friend and fellow writer Linda Sanche has brought it up on her blog, I can’t get the idea out of my mind. Thanks to Linda for her kind shout out for Vermin in…
Off the Shelf: The Group of Five Live
So happy to announce that Barb Howard, Barbara Miller Biles, Doreen Vanderstoop, Sophie Stocking and myself are getting together to re-launch our books that were launched during the height of the pandemic. We’ll be reading at the beautiful RGO Treehouse at cSpace King Edward, 4th floor 1721 – 29 Ave. SW, on Sept. 19th at…
Short Story Collection Award
I am so pleased and grateful that Vermin won the new Short Story Collection Award at the Alberta Literary Awards Gala in Edmonton on Saturday, June 11th. It is truly an honour to be the first recipient of this award; many thanks to the jury and to the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, not only for…
Short Story Collection Award Shortlist
I am excited that Vermin has shortlisted for the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s new Short Story Collection Award! Congratulations to my fellow finalists Norma Dunning and Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike. We will be doing some shortlist readings later this month, and the winner will be announced at the Alberta Literary Awards Gala on June 11th, in…
Made By History
It’s always a delight to get contributor copies in the mail, and this morning’s mail brought my copy of Made By History: An Anthology of Historical Fiction, just out from The Copperfield Review, and available in both print and e-book formats through Amazon. My contribution is an excerpt from my novel-in-progress Dearest Clara, which is…
“Dust in the Wind” recording
For anyone who missed it, here’s the recording of my CKUA Session Story, “Dust in the Wind”. Thanks again to CKUA Radio, Blindman Brewing and Jason Lee Norman for the opportunity!
“Dust in the Wind” on CKUA tonight!
CKUA Radio (93.7 FM in Calgary, or http://www.ckua.com) is airing my reading of my story “Dust in the Wind” at 5:45 this afternoon as part of the Session Stories series. Tune in if you have a chance! Thanks to Blindman Brewing and CKUA Radio (the world’s best radio station). Also: I have had a chance…
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