Write On

I've been writing so fast it caused wildfires. Sorry about that.

Upcoming Publications by Yours Truly:

• "Wolf Mother," fiction in the fall or winter edition of Augur
  
• "The Ghosts of Forests Past," creative nonfiction in the July 2023 issue of Solarpunk Magazine
  
• "Anirniliit: Those Which Breathe," "Nuliajuk's Promise," and "Seasons of the Nattiq," poems in the forthcoming spring/summer edition of Yellow Medicine Review
  
• "Monkey Business," fiction in the forthcoming spring/summer edition of Yellow Medicine Review
  

Recent Publications by Yours Truly:

• "Before the Flood," fiction in Common Unity: An Anthology
  
• Digital Mountains, Ink in the Sink.” Interview co-written with Moira Walsh in Periodicities: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, May 2023
  
• “How to Make Boiled Potatoes.” Memoir CNF in 2023 Festival of Literary Diversity Program. April 2023.
  
• “Lost and Found.” Memoir CNF in Grande Dame Literary Journal, March 2023.
  
• “The Huluppu Tree.” Poem in Banff 2023 Winter Writers Residency The Antholozine, February 2023.
  
• “Constellation and Aurora” and “The Fern Yard.” Poems in Under a Warm Green Linden, Issue 14: Indigenous Ecopoetry. December 2022
  
• “This is the Time Just Before Spider Woman Meets Kiviuq” and “Forced Birth” published in emerge 22 Anthology. October 2022.
  
  

I have just finished my stint as 2023 Yosef Wosk Fellow for the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive. I was working with Gurjinder Basran. She was a joy to work with, and helped me sharpen my writing and reinvestigate plot points in my novel-in-progress.

I received a grant extension for my manuscript from the Waterloo Arts Fund. I received the grant in 2022, but I still have about 25,000 words to go until my first draft is complete. I'm hoping to finish it before the winter.

I received a scholarship to attend the late winter online writers' residency with the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. I have also applied for an on-site residency with them later on in the year. Here's hoping I get to write in a beautiful cabin in the woods!

I completed a speculative fiction fellowship at Roots Wounds Words early this year, working with Indra Das. He was wonderful to work with, and had many insightful recommendations. The other fellows in the program were also terrific to work with, and I've kept up correspondence with a few of them.

I have applied for the grad program of The Writers Studio at Simon Fraser University. I had an acceptance in December, but turned it down because of the Fellowship I'd won with the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive.

I am finishing up a course called Lit Mag Love with Rachel Thompson. This is helping me streamline my submission process so that I can get more stuff published with magazines more appropriate for my trajectory to become a novelist. I am also a member of her Writerly Love community, so I can continue to learn in community.

In July, I will begin studying speculative short stories with editors/writers for Interzone. I hope that my own writing will improve as a result. And even if it doesn't, I'll get to read and discuss amazing stories with knowledgeable people.

I continue to write book reviews for Cloud Lake Literary, and will soon be a featured reviewer for Carousel Magazine. I reviewed God Isn't Here Today by Francine Cunningham, and the publishers liked my review so much that they are using a pull-quote from it.

I continue to take fairy tale generative workshops with Saraswathi Sukamar. The material I've generated in these workshops has gone on to be incorporated in a lot of my written work. I recommend Saraswathi's workshops. They're fun, and they also really take you out of your comfort zone.

I keep on doing public readings, too. Last week, I did a reading for Indigenous Peoples Day. My bit begins at 35:08. I also had a reading for the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, but I haven't received a recording of that one yet.

I keep sending off my writing to a variety of contests in the hopes that I might win one. Here's hoping!