Category: Blog
My High School Speech
<<Years later, don’t want to say how many, I was invited to my high school to deliver a talk as part of a panel, on ...
Why I Don’t Use My Real Name in Writing
This isn’t my real name. It’s not the name I was born with. Not the name people know me by. I’m not a criminal or ...
Rigorous Literary Magazine
Rigorous Literary Magazine is “A journal by black, indigenous and people of color,” that can be found here. I’m honoured that Rigorous published my story ...
Cool News!
One of those people is me! Hey all, amazingly grateful to have made the longlist for the CBC Short Story Contest. Great to share that ...
Some Very Cool Recognition
This is pretty neat, a short-list for an international writing competition: http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/2016-commonwealth-short-story-prize-shortlist/ 4000 entries from 47 countries, and 26 stories on the shortlist (including mine). Kind ...
Did You Know that You Cannot Lick Your Elbow?
Too much fiction can make a person overly serious. I often like to substitute clanking prose on the keyboard with shopping on-line… somewhere in that ...
The Day “Stairway to Heaven” Died
Writers, wrongly or rightly, wish they were able to compose songs. The highest goal of a writer is to make someone feel at all what ...
Audio Story – What I Sound Like When I’m Not Speaking
Have you ever wondered how long it takes to read a 1,500 word short story? Apparently, 8 minutes and 19 seconds. Below is a radio ...
How the Star Wars Teaser Saved My Shoes
On Friday November 28th, the teaser trailer for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens was released (http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/lucasfilm/starwarstheforceawakens/). In the long tradition of celebrating Kardashian ...
11 Fool-Proof Rules for Writing Fiction
If you haven’t noticed, I’m a writer. I only bring that up because it took a while to give myself the label. It’s funny ...