It’s been a while since the call out for Super Canucks anthology closed in late April and I am sure a lot of people that submitted are wondering when and if they will hear about their pieces. Delays aside, I hope it comes as some comfort that NO rejections have…
Super Canucks Anthology
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Open Call for Submissions – Super Canucks Anthology
Some big news to share. I’m co-editing an anthology with fellow writer and Northern Ontario boy – Mat Del Papa. Mat first approached me last spring with the idea for this anthology and its taken some twists and turns since. We pitched it Latitude 46 Publishing and they were happy…
Convention Reports
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CanCon2023 Round Up (Part 2)
Optimism should be defined as buying books that you want to read while knowing your TBR pile is so big that it shows up on satellite images from space. Not having enough time to read all the books I want never stops my enthusiasm for buying more books. Writing conventions…
What to Do If You Accidentally Break the Space-Time Continuum
I wrote this flash piece originally based on a prompt. It was a joy to write in the sense that I heard the character’s voice immediately in my head and the story just flowed from there. Even the title came to me easily (compared to how it normally does –…
CanCon2023 Round Up (Part 1)
Can*Con continues to be a shining beacon for genre writers of all stripes in Canada (and North America) and this year was no exception. In its second year back “post-pandemic” they increased the maximum number of attendees from 250 to 350 and it felt noticeably busier IMHO. Then again maybe…
Movie Reviews
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100 Movies – Bucket List (Not Mine!)
Who doesn’t love a movie list? Whether it’s super specific sub-genre, like I don’t know – time travel films, or a fun list like “Top 10 Weepy Breakup Films to Eat a Pint of Ice Cream During”, there’s enough of them out there. So it was interesting when this one…
Poetry
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At the lake’s edge
In 2017 Sudbury’s Poet Laureate, Kim Fahner put out a call for people to submit tweet-length poems for a Rain Poetry project modelled after ones done in places like Boston – See Example. The concept was that the winning entries would be painted on sidewalks around town with “invisible ink”…
Publications
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Frozen
A flash fiction piece that was originally published in Formation – A Collection of New Canadian Short Stories by Polar Express Publication in 2010 this was story was reprinted in 2016 as part of the Sudbury Ink – A Sudbury Writers’ Guild Anthology. A rather short and dark piece that…
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Mother’s Day
A short story published in 2016 as part of the anthology Sudbury Ink – Mother’s Day tells the story of Angela who’s given a Memory Wand by her adult son Leo. A technological gadget that allows it’s users revisit their memories. Angela is resistant to the idea of exploring her…
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Second Harvest
Published in Fictionvale in May 2014 as part of Episode 3: A Different Outcome, my story Second Harvest was the first story I sold. Fictionvale was a new online market that has since folded, but it published a lot of good fiction in the short time it was around. You…