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I just read Anne Baldo’s ‘This is Your Sign to Leave Him’, which was an honourable mention in the MRB Fiction Contest. The story is published in Volume 47, Number 2, of Prairie Fire. The story should have won that...
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Distinguished Story in ‘The Best American Short Stories 2025’
Excited to have a ‘Distinguished Story’ in The Best American Short Stories anthology for 2025. What’s this mean? The story is not published in the ...
FreeFall Literary Magazine 2025 Contest Wins
Grateful to have won 3rd place in the FreeFall Literary Magazine Prose contest, and to be winner of the Lynn Fraser Memorial Award. I wanted ...
Wolf Alice Establishes Themselves as the Greatest Band in the World
Wolf Alice is the greatest band in the world. I suspected this but didn’t fully get it until I saw them in Toronto on September ...
A Review of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
I’m so busy right now but I make time for reading, so just finished Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. You have to make time ...
A Review of Wolf Alice’s ‘The Clearing’ after One Listening
Why would I post a review of Wolf Alice’s ‘The Clearing’ after one listening? Because I wanted to see how I felt immediately. I got ...
A review of Murgatroyd Monaghan’s ‘white spaces where we learn to breathe’
This is my review of Murgatroyd Monaghan’s ‘white spaces where we learn to breathe’, in advance of the book launch coming in Toronto in just ...
A Chunk of Ice Slips Down the Glacier to the Black Beach
Yes, a chunk of ice slips down the glacier to the black beach, as though these are common things. My previous post on Iceland. You ...
Borgarnes and the Settlement Centre
We never made it to Borgarnes and the Settlement Centre. What would have been the point? What’s interesting about Iceland is that it’s new. There ...
Winner of the 2025 New Ohio Review Annual Contest
A story called ‘Ghee’ is the winner of the 2025 New Ohio Review Annual Contest. Super happy about that, for a couple of reasons. First, ...