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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 ...

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 ...
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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 ...

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!) ...