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So here I am at the first Banff Horror Writing Residency. It's absolutely gorgeous here and reminds me of when I lived in Valemount, BC as a kid. The big difference is that I lived in a travel trailer then, in campgrounds or squatting in someone's woodlot. Now I'm staying in a nice hotel room and hanging out with incredible writers from all over Turtle Island. My mentor is Jessica Johns.
My first day was a whirlwind. While I was getting a tour of the library, a fellow writer by the name of Rebecca asked me if I was the Shantell with a shortlisted story in Brave New Weird.
"Uh, I don't think so?" I remembered submitting something to Brave New Weird about a year ago, but it was rejected.
But then I looked it up, and yes, my story The Snow Hath No Queen is indeed on the Brave New Weird shortlist.
Cool!
Later on that day, I received another email notifying me that I'd been shortlisted for another prize. I'm not allowed to say which one (for now), but I'll announce it as soon as I can.
I had a difficult time sleeping that night.
Yesterday, my poem Pyrocene went live on Emerge Literary Journal. This is my fourth publication for the year.
So far at my residency, I've worked on my novella "The Development." I hope to finish the first draft here. I'm so close.
But I'm also working on other projects, so who knows? I put together a weird western called "He'll Be Coming Around the Mountain When He Comes." It comes from my novel "The Everwhen."
There are a lot of folks here writing about cannibals, and they inspired me to write another short story about man-eaters. I started work on that this afternoon. It features a group of wine moms. I can't wait to see how it turns out.
In other news, I was recently part of a women of horror panel. Here's The Villain Edition, Feminine Rage and Beyond, and Real-Life Horrors and Beyond.
And today, my poem "Stillborn" was accepted by Nightmare Magazine for publication.
My first day was a whirlwind. While I was getting a tour of the library, a fellow writer by the name of Rebecca asked me if I was the Shantell with a shortlisted story in Brave New Weird.
"Uh, I don't think so?" I remembered submitting something to Brave New Weird about a year ago, but it was rejected.
But then I looked it up, and yes, my story The Snow Hath No Queen is indeed on the Brave New Weird shortlist.
Cool!
Later on that day, I received another email notifying me that I'd been shortlisted for another prize. I'm not allowed to say which one (for now), but I'll announce it as soon as I can.
I had a difficult time sleeping that night.
Yesterday, my poem Pyrocene went live on Emerge Literary Journal. This is my fourth publication for the year.
So far at my residency, I've worked on my novella "The Development." I hope to finish the first draft here. I'm so close.
But I'm also working on other projects, so who knows? I put together a weird western called "He'll Be Coming Around the Mountain When He Comes." It comes from my novel "The Everwhen."
There are a lot of folks here writing about cannibals, and they inspired me to write another short story about man-eaters. I started work on that this afternoon. It features a group of wine moms. I can't wait to see how it turns out.
In other news, I was recently part of a women of horror panel. Here's The Villain Edition, Feminine Rage and Beyond, and Real-Life Horrors and Beyond.
And today, my poem "Stillborn" was accepted by Nightmare Magazine for publication.
