SELECTED WORKS
BOOKS
A Song for Wildcats - forthcoming from Dundurn Press
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Bonavere Howl - Guernica Editions
Blackbird - Aqueous Books (finalist for Glimmer Train's 2010 Fiction Open Contest)
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SHORT STORIES AND PRIZES
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"Heatstroke" - forthcoming in Best Canadian Stories 2025 (Biblioasis), edited by Steven W. Beattie
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"Heatstroke" - EVENT (Issue 52/2)
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"The Lyrebird's Bell" - Winner of the 2020 Morton Prize, published in The Ex-Puritan: Issue 51 (judged by Pasha Malla)
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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.
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"Bonavere Howl" - Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology: Volume Six, published by Exile Editions (selected by Gloria Vanderbilt)
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"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)
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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."
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"Dog Fights in Dresden" - Winner of Riddle Fence’s 2011 Short Fiction Contest, published in Riddle Fence: Issue 10
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"The Romance Bone" (excerpt from Blackbird) - Winner of CBC’s Stranger than Fiction Contest, published by CBC Books (judged by Heather O'Neill)
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HEATHER O'NEILL:
"The winning entry goes to the story of a girl hanging out in a room that has been decorated by a boy who is either going to grow up to be a famed biologist or a serial killer. It hilariously encapsulates that feeling we have on first dates when we have no idea who the person we're with really is. Falling in love is a leap of faith."
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SHORTLISTS AND LONGLISTS
Shortlisted for the 2016 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Prize
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Shortlisted for House of Anansi's Broken Social Scene Story Contest
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Longlisted for the 2012 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Prize
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Shortlisted for Matrix Magazine’s 2011 Litpop Award
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Shortlisted for Glimmer Train’s 2011 Fiction Open Contest
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GRANTS
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2024 Canada Council Grant for Professional Writers
2022 Ontario Arts Council Literary Creation Projects Grant
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2022 Toronto Arts Council Writers Work in Progress Grant
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2021 Canada Council Grant for Professional Writers
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2019 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant
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2019 Toronto Arts Council Writers Work in Progress Grant
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2018 Ontario Arts Council Literary Creation Projects Grant
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Multiple 2018 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grants
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2014 Toronto Arts Council Writers Work in Progress Grant
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2012 Canada Council Grant for Professional Writers
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2012 Toronto Arts Council Writers Work in Progress Grant
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2012 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant
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