Creative Writing
Publication: “Into the Wind” in A Gelato A Day, September 2022. Edited by Claudia Laroye.
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Publication: How the Blue Jays helped our family through Dad’s last innings, Globe and Mail First Person, June 2022.
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Publication: “My Fridge Is Full Of Endings,” in Sustenance, October 2017. Edited by Rachel Rose.
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Publication & Award: "The Equation" in The Malahat Review, Winner of the Constance Rooke Prize, 2016. (The Malahat Review's 2016 CNF contest Constance Rooke Prize announcement).
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Publication: "Nine" in Boobs: Women Explore What It Means to have Breasts, Caitlin Press, 2016. Edited by Ruth Daniell.
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Shortlist: "Stickhandling" shortlisted for Room Magazine Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2015.
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Shortlist: "A Daughter's List" shortlisted for Briarpatch Magazine Writing in the Margins Contest 2015.
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Publication: "Rounding Third" in Emerge 2015, SFU Writer's Studio, 2015. With guest editor Matt Rader and managing editor Janet Fretter.
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Finalist, CBC Canada Writes, Hyperlocal Contest, "The Forest Children", 2013.
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Publication (as editor and co-author): Maple Ridge Moments in Time, 2000.
Freelance writing
I work on a wide variety of projects including magazine articles, opinion pieces, content for specialty newspaper publications, plain language projects, media relations and social media for not-for profits.
A few examples:
Early On: Who’s Looking After The Kids? and Early On: You Aren’t Losing Your Baby, regular column on early childhood development in the Maple Ridge News.
Back on the job, WorkSafe Magazine.
"Playing Like a Girl" and "Mansplain Away, Boys" in Skirt Quarterly Magazine.
Achingly flawless at Garibaldi Secondary, Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows News.
