Interview by Microcosm Publishing, and an Award
Microcosm Publishing did an interview about my story “Down Memory Lane,” which is slated to appear in The Bicyclists’
Guide to the Galaxy: Bike and Book SFF Stories. A link to the interview can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/microcosmpublishing/the-bicyclists-guide-to-the-galaxy-bikes-books-and-feminism/posts/3892280
Also happy to note that my poem “First Contact,”
first published in Eye to the Telescope Issue 44, “Notional Ekphrasis,”
finished tied for third place in the Rhysling Short Poem category. The Rhysling
Awards are annual awards given by the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association for the best science fiction,
fantasy, or horror poem of the year. I’ve always considered myself
fortunate when one of my poems is nominated for the Rhysling Anthology, so
I was thrilled to have a poem place in the balloting.
Recent Publications
Poetry:
“Alternate
World 452,” Polar Borealis, August 2023, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/POLAR-BOREALIS-26-August-2023.pdf (this poem was previously published in Illumen,
summer 2019)
“The
Day We All Died, A Little,” Radon Journal, Issue 5, https://www.radonjournal.com/issue5/the-day-we-all-died%2C-a-little
“Globe Trotters,” NonBinary Review
Issue 33, World Tour, September 2023.
“Late April Snowfall,” The Ultra Best
Short Verse 2023: A Canadian Anthology of Poetry, Beret Days Press, 2023
(Winners and honourable mentions in The Ontario Poetry Society’s Ultra-Short
Poetry Contest).
“When We Heard,” Journ-E, The Journal
of Imaginative Literature, Vol. 2, No. 2, Autumnal Equinox, September 2023.
Reviews:
The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together
as Things Fall Apart,
by Astra Taylor, The Miramichi Reader, September 26, 2023, https://miramichireader.ca/2023/09/the-age-of-insecurity-by-astra-taylor/
Sentient
Stones, by Susan McCaslin, The Miramichi Reader,
September 11, 2023, https://miramichireader.ca/2023/09/sentient-stones-by-susan-mccaslin/
What I’m Working On
Lately I’ve been working
on reviews and short fiction ideas. Among the books in my Reading/To Be Read
pile for future reviews: Jes Battis’ The Winter Knight, and Gary Morgenstein’s A Dugout
for Peace. The Winter Knight portrays Arthurian legend come to life in the
modern day, with a refreshingly diverse set of characters. A Dugout
for Peace is
the third installment in a Morgenstein’s Dark Depths dystopian trilogy.
