SELECTED WORKS
BOOKS
A Song for Wildcats - Rare Machines, Dundurn Press (2025)
Bonavere Howl - Guernica Editions (2019)
Blackbird - Aqueous Books (2013), finalist for Glimmer Train's 2010 Fiction Open Contest
SHORT STORIES AND PRIZES
"Heatstroke" - Best Canadian Stories 2025 (Biblioasis), edited by Steven W. Beattie
"Heatstroke" - EVENT (Issue 52/2)
"The Lyrebird's Bell" - Winner of the 2020 Morton Prize, published in The Ex-Puritan: Issue 51 (judged by Pasha Malla)
PASHA MALLA:
“The Lyrebird’s Bell” has the sacred, gothic sensibility of myth, but remains grounded in the evocative connection between its characters. Rich in sensory detail, the story crackles with electric urgency, energized by forbidden discoveries and a tantalizing balance between play and peril. This is “The Lives of Girls and Women” as dark fantasy, and a compelling, original work of fiction by a writer to admire.
"Bonavere Howl" - Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology: Volume Six, published by Exile Editions (selected by Gloria Vanderbilt)
"Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl" (or "Hot Flamingo") - The Broken Social Scene Story Project, published by House of Anansi Press (selected by Feist)
THE JUDGES:
"One of the darkest stories in the contest. It feels dangerous, right from the first page, like you're walking into a black labyrinth."
"Dog Fights in Dresden" - Winner of Riddle Fence’s 2011 Short Fiction Contest, published in Riddle Fence: Issue 10
"The Romance Bone" (excerpt from Blackbird) - Winner of CBC’s Stranger than Fiction Contest, published by CBC Books (judged by Heather O'Neill)
SHORTLISTS AND LONGLISTS
Shortlisted for the 2016 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Prize
Shortlisted for House of Anansi's Broken Social Scene Story Contest
Longlisted for the 2012 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Prize
Shortlisted for Matrix Magazine’s 2011 Litpop Award
Shortlisted for Glimmer Train’s 2010 Fiction Open Contest
GRANTS
2024 Canada Council Grant for Professional Writers
2022 Ontario Arts Council Literary Creation Projects Grant
2022 Toronto Arts Council Writers Work in Progress Grant
2021 Canada Council Grant for Professional Writers
2019 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant
2019 Toronto Arts Council Writers Work in Progress Grant
2018 Ontario Arts Council Literary Creation Projects Grant
Multiple 2018 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grants
2014 Toronto Arts Council Writers Work in Progress Grant
2012 Canada Council Grant for Professional Writers
2012 Toronto Arts Council Writers Work in Progress Grant
2012 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant
