Category: Literature
A Review of Three Short Pieces
Herein, I provide a review of three short pieces, Tanya Rivonne Ward’s “It’s Temporary”, Vincent Anioke’s “Finite Automata”, and Paola Ferrante’s “A Residual Haunt of ...
My Favourite Place to Write
I’ve written stories on airplanes, boats, trains, in the backseat of a Volkswagen van, in a basement closet, on the roof of a shitty student ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction
Honoured to have won the 2024 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction, as determined by The Lascaux Review. “The Reach” is the winning story, which previously ...
CBC Short Story Prize Shortlisted Story: Saad Steps Out
I hate heights. They give me that wobbly feeling in my legs. The below story is from 2014 and was shortlisted for the CBC Short ...