Lately
2020-2021
- PRODUCTION PROJECTS
- Homegrown bilingual microcast series entitled "Bonjour" (Hello in French) is in beta and pre-production mode.
- PUBLICATIONS
- "Small Pedestals" vignette published online at Black Bear Review (May 2021)
- Submitted the vignette "Small Pedestals" audio file as a pitch to The Moth Radio Hour for possible airing.
- Tapestry section editorial to Nelson Star (Slotted for June, 2021)
- "This Black Bear Has 28 minutes" - Arts & Culture Podcast -
Contributor: Literary Craft Minute Episode #4 . Managing Editor and co-mentor on Episodes 1, 2 and 3.
- RECOGNITION & AWARDS
- In nomination for Raymond Carver Award for emerging authors
- Received UAS Award of Excellence - Selkirk College - Nominated by English Instructor, Almeda Glenn Miller
- Received UAS Award of Excellence - Selkirk College - Nominated by English Faculty, Renée Harper
- READINGS
- Oxygen Art Centre - Author Reading Series - Selkirk Student showcase reader (1/3) - "Small Pedestals". Featured 5 peers and reader: Associate Professor, Creative Studies, Creative Writing,
Matthew Rader, UBC Okanagan
- Oxygen Art Centre - Author Reading Series - Selkirk Student showcase reader (1/3) - "Small Pedestals". Featured 5 peers and reader: Associate Professor, Creative Studies, Creative Writing,
- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND HOSTING
- Held the Managing Editor position at literary journal: The Black Bear Review at Selkirk College.
- Co-hosted a Stone's Throw Writer's Symposium on behalf of the Black Bear Review in collaboration with Eastern Washington University under the tutelage of Leesa Dean.
- Co-host (With Bre Harwood) - Black Bear Review Spring Launch Party: print issue No.10 - Special Guest: Anne DeGrace.
2018-2019
- PANEL, EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE
- As Part of the Black Bear Review collective, offered counsel to igh school participants of
the annual L.V. Rogers 24 Hour Literary Competition. - Joine the the Black Bear Review as an editorial team member - Fiction.
- As Part of the Black Bear Review collective, offered counsel to igh school participants of
- READINGS
- Read “Abalone” at Words on Baker, a spoken word open mic for poetry, prose, slam, and song at Dominion Café, Nelson, BC. Feature set: Brad Bradley, award-winning poet and host of CJLY's Poetry for Keeps.
- Read “Abalone” at The Black Bear Review's Night Growlers – Poetry and Prose Readings, The Dam Inn, South Slocan, BC
- PUBLICATIONS
- My non-fiction short story, “The Xerophyte”, is published in the Black Bear Review
- “An Act of Reclamation”, is published in the Nelson Star, Tapestry section.
- AWARDS/RECOGNITION
- Recipient of the Creative Spark Columbia Basin Grant for BC Artists in Schools.
- EVENTS
- Third Annual Stone's Throw Writing Symposium at The Mir Center for Peace - Selkirk College.
- Elephant Mountain Literary Festival/ EMLF in Nelson, BC.
- SELECT READINGS
- “Red Sea” at The Nelson Poetry Slam.
- “Read Sea” at the Royal ahead of singer-songwriter Sophie D’Orléans.
- RESIDENCY
- Started Artist Residency in Motherhood
- Creative Writing studies ongoing.
- Creative Writing Program at Selkirk College, Nelson, BC.
Everything is story.
