Over the years I’ve been published in a variety of places like, Prairie Fire, Lemon Hound, Poetry is Dead Magazine, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Other Voices, CV2, CBC News Manitoba Online.
Below are the more recent publications, starting 2019ish.
Books
Glass Bricks – a quirky look at work ethic & all the jobs I’ve done. Available through your local bookstores worldwide or Amazon (paperback/digital) or it can be ordered at https://atbaypress.com/books/detail/glass-bricks
Recent Journal/Magazine/Anthology Publications (writing – some with photos) & Award Nominations Click on the titles to read online available pieces. Categories below: Scroll down for the following: Flash Fiction/Microfiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Photography (on its own).
Flash Fiction/Microfiction:
“Reading the Dead,” MacQueen’s Quinterly, Issue 23, April 2024.
“Bonanza Blindness,” MacQueen’s Quinterly, Issue 23, April 2024.
“A Near Perfect Ending,” Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine, Special Issue 1, April 25, 2024. Contest Honourable Mention.
“A Perfect Blank,” Paragraph Planet, March 28, 2024. Click to see previous stories by date or later in author archive.
“Filling Extra Space,” Loss Lifespan, Vol. 9, a Pure Slush anthology, February 2024.
“Living in Monochrome,” and “It’s All You Can Do,” Gooseberry Pie, Issue 5, February 15, 2024.
“Sometime There’s No Choice,” Bright Flash Literary Review, February 5, 2024.
“A Thing He Once Had,” Paragraph Planet, December 8, 2023. Click to see previous stories by date or later in author archive.
“Past Imperfect,” Cult. Magazine, November 16, 2023. Nominated & Selected for Best Microfiction 2024.
“He and She Trilogy,” South Florida Poetry Journal, Flash Fiction Section, Issue 31, November 2023. Click on the link and scroll down to find it.
“Breaking Up With Routine,” Writing in a Woman’s Voice, October 19, 2023.
“Stymied Once Again,” Writing in a Woman’s Voice, October 18, 2023.
“Trying to Let Go,” The Dribble Drabble Review, Issue 8, Fall 2023, page 38. Nominated for 2024 Pushcart Prize. Also see below my photography on cover and in Minimalist Photography Feature pages 64-67.
“Origami,” The Ekphrastic Review, Oct 1, 2023.
5 Flash/Micros (Memory Jogged/Only Stealing Bits/Switching Addictions/Taking Control/Until It’s Over and Over), MacQueen’s Quinterly, Issue 20, September 15, 2023.
“The Moon Shrinks,” Molecule, Issue 9, p. 23, Sept 14, 2023.
“When the Decorators Leave,” The Ekphrastic Review, September 11, 2023.
“She’s So Nice,” Writing in a Woman’s Voice, September 8, 2023.
“When a Photo Was a Commitment,” Writing in a Woman’s Voice, September 7, 2023.
“Walking with a New Friend,” Blink-Ink Secrets #53, September 2023. Print Journal.
“After the Holiday,” with photos & audio recording, in Games Room 3, The Games Room at Full House Literary, July 2023.
“Beach Reality,” 101 Words, July 16, 2023
“Something Is Amiss,” Emerge Literary Journal, Issue 26&27, June 2023
“Together You Try,” Flash Flood, National Flash Fiction Day, UK. June 24, 2023
“She Would Hate All This Publicity,” published in New Flash Fiction Review, selected for Wigleaf Top 50 2023 Long List. See link to the story listed below, Oct 2022. Here’s the link to the list . https://wigleaf.com/23top50main.htm
“Rust and Stain,” Switch Online, April 17, 2023.
“Nothing But a Bump,” Award Book, The Dribble Drabble Review, Winter 2023. See story below in The Dribble Drabble Review, Issue 4, Fall 2021.
“When Breath Drops,” selected for Potato Soup Journal’s Best of 2022 anthology, Winter 2023. (Originally published in Potato Soup Journal, April 14, 2022, see link below.)
“It Can’t Hurt If You Tell No One,” Microfiction Monday Magazine, Edition 176, March 6, 2023. Open link & scroll down.
“Looking Through Your Eyes Without a Mirror,” Microfiction Monday Magazine, Edition 175, February 27, 2023. Open link & scroll down.
“Unable to Avoid Acculturation,” and a photograph, Shorts Magazine, Vol. 4, Winter 2023.
“They Came in Peace,” Microfiction Monday Magazine, Edition 174, February 20, 2023. Click link, then scroll.
“In Her Own Words,” The Odd Magazine, Oddity 25, February 2023. Click link, then scroll.
“Until I Wrestled It Back,” Yellow Mama Webzine, Issue 96, February 12, 2023.
“Waiting It Out,” 50-Word Story, February 6, 2023.
“When There’s Nothing Left to Distract You,” Suddenly, and Without Warning, January 31, 2023.
“I’m Now Taking This Personally,” Paragraph Planet, January 27, 2023. Click to see previous stories by date or later in author archive.
“What He’s Made Of,” The Dribble Drabble Review, Issue VII, page 30, January 2023.
“Grinding Teeth,” reprinted in Miramichi Flash, Miramichi Reader, December 23, 2022. (Originally published in Spelk Fiction, September 18, 2019, see below.)
“A Warning,” Songbirds of North America – Woodlot Press, an insert in Blink-Ink Country Roads, #50, Dec 2022. Print Journal. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, & Best Small Fictions).
“She Would Hate All This Publicity,” New Flash Fiction Review, Issue 27, Oct 2022. Selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 2023 Longlist.
“As Blue as the Prairie Sky, The Dribble Drabble Review, Issue 5, Fall 2022.
“Marking Your Territory” & “Waiting at the Coffee and Suds,” Ink Sweat & Tears, September 26, 2022.
“How We Named the Horse,” Blink-Ink Storm #49, September 2022. Print Journal. (Nominated for Best Small Fictions).
“Protecting Yourself” & “Trying to Avoid the Exterminator, Cult. Magazine, August 26, 2022. “Trying to Avoid the Exterminator,” was chosen as one of 3 Editors’ Favourites for 2022.
“Waking Up Somewhere Else,” Marriage Lifespan Vol. 6, a Pure Slush anthology, August 2022.
“You Know This Is How It Is, In Defence of Pseudoscience, a Reflex Fiction Vol 5 anthology, August 2022 (see original story in Reflex Fiction journal publication below).
“Nothing But a Bump,” The Dribble Drabble Review I -V (anthology), April 2022 (See original story in The Dribble Drabble Review publication below).
“When Breath Drops,” Potato Soup Journal, April 14, 2022.
“What Might Happen When You’re Stuck,” Cleaver Magazine, Issue 37, March 2022.
“Tiny and Sharp,” MacQueen’s Quinterly, Issue 12, Micros, March 2022.
“I Know It Sounds Farfetched,” & a photograph, Litro USA, January 21, 2022.
“Blood From a Tick,”& a photograph, Free Flash Fiction, November 27, 2021.
“Pretending It’s All Okay,” The Drabble, November 9, 2021.
“And Eating Them, Too,” South Florida Poetry Journal, Flash Fiction Section, Issue 23, November 2021. Click on the link and scroll down to find it.
“You Know This Is How It Is,” Reflex Fiction, October 12, 2021.
“Nothing But a Bump,” The Dribble Drabble Review, Issue 4, Fall 2021. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize & Best Microfiction)
“Layer by Layer,” The Odd Magazine, Oddity Issue 22, August 2021. Click link, then scroll.
“Something Is Out of Place,” reprinted in Miramichi Flash, Miramichi Reader, June 25, 2021. (originally published in Fewer Than 500 on January 22, 2019, see below.)
“Icing on a Cake,” The Daily Drunk Magazine, May 31, 2021.
“Stopping the World,” Six Sentences, May 22, 2021.
“A Beautiful Tree Though,” & a photograph, in Shorts Magazine, February 20, 2021.
“Finding Something in the Light,” in Grey Sparrow Journal, January 31, 2021.
“Reaching Luck,” in Six Sentences, January 4, 2021.
“Caught In It,” in Wrong Way Turn Back, a Pure Slush, Vol. 19, anthology, October 2020.
“But Not Bella,” in Reflex Fiction, August 2, 2020.
“Bird Number Three,” & a photograph, in Fewer Than 500, July 28, 2020. (Journal closed in February 2023).
“Every Morning,” in A Girl’s Guide to Fly Fishing, a Reflex Fiction anthology, July 2020. (See original story in Reflex Fiction publication below.)
“Bomb Shelter,” in Flash Flood, for National Flash Fiction Day in the UK, June 6, 2020.
“Like a Crow,” in 50-Word Stories, October 23, 2019.
“Unaware,” in Microfiction Monday, 88th Edition, October 7, 2019.
“Grinding Teeth,” Spelk Fiction, September 18, 2019.
“Every Morning,” & a photograph, Reflex Fiction, September 3, 2019.
“Water Rising,” & a photograph, Flash Fiction North, August 26, 2019.
“Something is Out of Place,” & a photograph, Fewer Than 500, January 22, 2019. (Journal closed in February 2023).
Poetry:
“Temperatures Rising,” Winnipeg Free Press, Writes of Spring: WFP and Winnipeg International Writers Festival, April 27, 2024.
“Comfort Care,” SugarSugarSalt, July 28, 2023. Reprinted from Writing in a Woman’s Voice (see below). Click on link & go to archives list to click on my name.
“Missing the Shot,” Versification Poetry Zine, Issue: Fall 2023. Scroll down 2/3 in issue.
A reading, for 2Poem2 Tuesday – Turnstone Press, of two poems originally published in New Flash Fiction Review (see below), March 2021.
“Comfort Care,” Writing in a Woman’s Voice, January 7, 2021.
“Three Prose Poems,” New Flash Fiction Review, January 7, 2020.
“Taking Off,” Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, Issue 16:1 (print & online), Spring 2019.
“Anticipation,” “Worm,” & “Dancing,” & 2 photographs, Door A Jar (print), Spring 2019.
Nonfiction:
“Midwinter in Winnipeg Sometimes,” The Hooghly Review, Weekly Features, March 31, 2024. A photo/micro essay.
“Losing Colour,” Five Minute Lit, May5, 2022.
“Here, We Talk About the Weather,” & a photograph, New Flash Fiction Review, March 18, 2022.
“Never Before,” Five Minute Lit, Dec. 9, 2021.
“Timeline,” in Gush: menstrual manifestos for our times, an anthology, edited by Rosanna Deerchild, Ariel Gordon, and Tanis MacDonald (Frontenac House, 2018).
Photography (on its own).
Cover Photo, Photo (page 4) & Minimalist Photography Feature (page 64-67), The Dribble Drabble Review, Issue 8. Also writing nominated for 2024 Pushcart Prize (see above).
My photo used as a prompt for The Meg Pokrass Prize contest stories. Summer 2023. https://www.flashfictionfestival.com/the-pokrass-prize/
2015 in Winnipeg.
“Along the River,” Briefly Writes, Issue 6, September 2021.
Second Prize Winner ($750 driving credit) in the Peg City Car Co-op – WALK.BIKE.BUS. Sometimes Drive Photo Contest. September 2021.
Through Camera & Pen 