January 2024 Update

Happy New Year to all. Here's hoping 2024 is a good one for you.

My poem “First Contact” was included in the Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One which launched in December 2023. “First Contact” first appeared in Eye to the Telescope Issue 44: Notional Ekphrastic. The poem was inspired by the topic for that issue, which was edited by F. J. Bergmann, so thanks to F.J. for coming up with that theme!.

Ordering links for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One are as follows:

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ebook/year-s-best-canadian-fantasy-and-science-fiction-volume-one

Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/Years-Canadian-Fantasy-Science-Fiction-ebook/dp/B0CP88Q46M/

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Years-Canadian-Fantasy-Science-Fiction-ebook/dp/B0CP88Q46M/

Recent Publications

Poetry:
“Concert in the Park,” “On Our Backyard Rink,” Paddler Press Volume 10, Outside/Inside: New Poems for Children, released December 2023. 

“Cupid Visits the Archery Club,” “The Human Ambassador’s Addresses the People of Alpha Centauri,” “Just Another Night at the Bar,” and “Were We There?”, Illumen, Summer 2023, Hiraeth Publishing.

“The Nannybot’s Musings,” House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature Volume 4: The Artificial Intelligence Edition,” December 21, 2023.

Reviews:
Becoming Jade, by Tyree Campbell, published in The Fifth Dimension, December 2023, Hiraeth Publishing. 

Decolonizing Sport, edited by Janice Forsyth, Christine O’Bonsawin, Russell Field, and Murray G. Phillips, published on The Miramichi Reader site, December 31, 2023, https://miramichireader.ca/2023/12/decolonizing-sport-by-janice-forsyth-and-others/ 

A Dugout to Peace, by Gary Morgenstein, published on the Sports Literature Association web site, November 28, 2023, https://sportliteratureassociation.wordpress.com/2023/11/28/a-dugout-to-peace-by-gary-morgenstein/

Short Stories:
“Down Memory Lane,” Bicyclist’s Guide to the Galaxy, Microcosm Press, released December 2023.

What I’m Working On
During December, I spent some time preparing a short story collection for submission. For 2024, I’m planning to write more non-fiction pieces (book reviews, personal essays, etc.), while still producing a some short stories and poems.