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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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Book Launch – Murgatroyd Monaghan’s ‘white spaces where we learn to breathe’
Murgatroyd Monaghan is doing a book launch for ‘white spaces where we learn to breathe’ on August 17, 2025 at Free Times Cafe in downtown ...
Rumours of the Grand River
I heard rumours of the Grand River, which starts in the Dufferin Highlands in Ontario, up near Dundalk. The elevation up there is so high ...
Whose Truth is It, Anyway?
The New Quarterly offered me an opportunity to record a 60-second excerpt from the CNF they published in issue 174 (Whose Truth is it Anyway?). ...
My Sunday Confession
My Sunday confession: I remember when writing used to be a hobby. Have you ever had a hobby? This is the definition of ‘hobby’: an activity ...
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 ...