Category: News

A Couple of Published Stories (december Magazine and FreeFall Magazine); and an Update

I’ve posted that these have been published, but I don’t know how many people subscribe to these fine literary magazines, so I thought I’d indicate ...

New publications

In case anyone subscribes to December Magazine (https://decembermag.org/product/volume-35-2/), I’ve got a story in the latest edition called ‘Stars’. It’s a quasi-digital gay romance that I ...

New Story Published in The Bangalore Review

                        ‘I swim in a shark.’             That’s how this story starts. It began with that one strange line and evolved into a full ...

Freefall Magazine Contest Wins

I’ll never know how to properly talk about myself, but here goes. Great thanks to Freefall Magazine, subtitled ‘Canada’s Magazine of Exquisite Writing’ (love that!) ...

The Reach – Winner of Boulevard’s 2022 Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers

Boulevard’s selection of this story for the noted award is a turning point for me. As of today, the story remains published on Boulevard’s website ...

A Couple of Live Readings

Hi all, June 10th at 6 pm in Toronto, per the above, I’m going to be doing a reading. I have no idea what I’m ...

Masters Review Short Story Award for New Writers Shortlist

Feeling the depths of jet lag at the moment, but I know it will pass. Sitting in a coffee shop… drinking coffee. It’s a remedy. ...

Interview with Short Story Today

Hi all, I’m a bit quiet about my writing life and about me in general, for lots of reasons. I’m pretty sure this is me ...

‘A Moment for Indra Singh’: runner-up in the Ex-Puritan’s Austin Clarke Prize for Literary Excellence – read it at this link

I don’t want to editorialize on the subject of my own story. I’m deeply grateful to Ex-Puritan for publishing it. It’s as pure a story ...

Shortlist for the Ex-Puritan Austin Clarke Literary Prize in Excellence

The image in this post is the type of thing that makes me want to write more, to go further. To really get out there. ...