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Last month a local grade 10 student asked me to take part in a careers project she was working on, and when I’d finished responding to her questions it occurred to me that some of…

The nominees for this year’s Alberta Literary Awards were announced this week and I’m very pleased to see a novel I edited, Monica Kidd’s The Crane, published by Breakwater Books, shortlisted for this year’s City…

The nominees for this year’s Atlantic Book Awards were announced in Halifax yesterday. I’m very pleased to see a short-story collection I edited, Heidi Wicks’s Here, published by Breakwater Books, shortlisted for this year’s Alistair…

I’m so pleased to share the news that Elizabeth Murphy’s novel The Weather Diviner is one of four Canadian titles on the list for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award. The award receives nominations from public…

I came back from a recent trip to the mainland to find a nice pileup of book mail—complimentary copies of books I’ve worked on, kindly sent along by the publishers. Here’s a sampling of the…

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…