Category: Literature
My First Creative Nonfiction Piece Published!
Thank you to The New Quarterly for publishing my piece ‘The Last Barrel’, the first creative nonfiction I’ve done! You can read it here. I ...
Make Belief: How do you know if your writing is any good?
A problem I have is not understanding if my writing is any good. I hear from writers that pieces they really liked are the ones ...
My Wedding Ring Doesn’t Fit
When a wedding ring doesn’t fit, you go the mall and explain to a woman in a jewellery store that you need it taken in, ...
A Clutch of Ideas
Ideas come in braces or clutches to me, often when I’m doing the following things: a) showering (don’t be gross) b) long-distance biking (I put ...
Andor Finally Admits What Star Wars is About
Star Wars never truly admits what it is, but Andor finally has. I just watched the first three episodes of Season 2 of Andor, the ...
Songs of the 90s: Writing Fuel
The songs of the 90s included some that never hit the mainstream but that are so big and epic and powerful, that they inspire me ...
Publication in The New Quarterly – Whose Truth is it Anyway?
The New Quarterly, the wonderful literary journal from my hometown of Waterloo, asked the simple question: whose truth is it anyway? Why do we have ...
‘Ghostworlds’ – CBC Short Story Prize shortlisted piece, 2025
Really happy to be on the CBC Short Story Prize Shortlist this year, for a piece called ‘Ghostworlds’. Canada Writes has put the story online ...
Lascaux Prize-winning story ‘The Reach’ published
‘The Reach’, which won the Lascaux Prize in 2024, was just published on The Lascaux Review’s website. Some of you may have read this story ...
Chris Hemsworth joins Heavens to Murgatroyd!
Very appreciative of Lintusen Press for including a story I wrote called ‘Chris Hemsworth’ in the Heavens to Murgatroyd! anthology. Murgatroyd Monaghan, a supremely-talented poet ...