The nominees for this year’s Atlantic Book Awards were announced in Halifax today. I’m very pleased to see two collections I edited, Susie Taylor’s Vigil and Allison Graves’s Soft Serve, both published by Breakwater Books,…
Two announcements in one, here: I was so pleased to see two books I edited, Susie Taylor’s story collection Vigil and Elizabeth Murphy’s novel The Weather Diviner, both published by Breakwater Books, longlisted for this…
I was so pleased to see not one but two books I worked on make this year’s Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards longlist. Bridget Canning’s short story collection No One Knows About Us and Shelly…
Way back in January, in the middle of an otherwise pretty bleak week, I found out I’d won the inaugural Deborah Wills Chapbook Contest, and now many months later copies of that (limited edition!) chapbook…
One of the weird joys of my editing life is sometimes being hired by my friends and getting to see what they’ve been up to lately. Sometimes this means being given forty-eight hours to copyedit…
I started this week fully intending to do what in the freelance self-help world is known as “niching down,” that is, settling once and for all on a specialty and advertising oneself accordingly. Fiction is…
Bunches of tulips were $2.99 at my grocery store the other day and so, even though I was waiting on a cheque for some work and really shouldn’t have been splurging on any extras until…
As a sort of understory to my other reading, for about the past year and a half I’ve been working through the five volumes of Virginia Woolf’s diaries, and then yesterday morning I got to the…
One of my favourite editing projects in recent memory, Jamie Fitzpatrick’s amazing second novel, The End of Music (Breakwater Books), launched a whole year ago and I was buried in other work at the time and…
My latest interview for The Malahat Review is up now on their site. I got to talk to Jenny Ferguson about her essay “Excavating Rias,” which will appear in the Malahat’s fall issue. Her essay…