The 2024 Book Awards (Abbreviated Version)

Ugh! No real time to do a proper job on my 2024 Book Awards (that is, as last year, several arbitrary categories of books I enjoyed during the year). It’s just been like… listen, when I explain this, no one will believe...Read More
An Early Year-End Roundup
The other day I bought a book about learning how to write poetry—wait, wait, come back! I’m not done! GET BACK HERE. Listen, I haven’t even read it yet. It isn’t on my Kindle (it’s still in “All” rather than “Downloaded”). All...Read More
Eligibility Post – 2024

Phew! Busy year! Busy year? Busy year. Aside from the work I’ve done in my year as the writer-in-residence for the Edmonton Public Library (Milner location), I have also been working on, shockingly enough, fiction! I am quite sure that at any...Read More
Where to find me in Oct (plus a few days in Sep)
I am over my head! Again! When am I not, I suppose. Someone recently asked me why I feel so overwhelmed and burnt-out and I was like… it’s not so much the things I’m doing as the volume of things I’m doing....Read More
If We All Knew Less About Each Other

As writers, we are always asking ourselves Where does a story start? Or where should a story start? Or where should my story start? What’s the best place, the most opportune moment, the most enticing gangplank we can extend to someone wishing...Read More
Where to find me generally!

I had to just mush everything together into ‘summer’ because THINGS ARE HAPPENING (and some of the things don’t have links yet!) — anyway, I’m still on the fence about restarting my newsletter even though the chorus of voices insisting that NEWSLETTERS...Read More