Publications

awards & fellowships

So Limitless and Free International Film Festival, Finalist, (Montreal, QC), December 31, You Know What’s Great?, 2024
Victoria Butler Book Award, 2024 City of Victoria, Winner, Anecdotes, 2024

VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award, Finalist, Anecdotes, 2024
Fred Kerner Book Award, Canadian Authors Association, Finalist, Anecdotes, 2024
Austin Micro Film Festival, (Austin, TX), Finalist, September 16, Do You Know What’s Great?, 2024
Trillium Book Award, Ontario Creates, Finalist, Anecdotes, 2024
2023 Danuta Gleed Liter ary Award, Writers' Union of Canada, Short List, Anecdotes, 2024
We Screenplay Short Film Lab, Quarterfinalist, I Won’t Clean the Tub, 2023
Montreal International Poetry Prize, Longlist, The People Skirt, 2015
Heavy Feather Review Chapbook Contest, Finalist, Rip the Tits & Other Stories, 2014
CBC Poetry Prize, Longlist, Ice Fishing, Neighbours, Stones, Looking for Crayfish, 2012
ReLit Awards, Longlist, Poetry, Onion Man, 2012
Geist Erasure Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention, Companion, 2011
Montreal International Poetry Prize, Longlist, Jackie Gleason, 2011
CBC Literary Awards, Poetry, Finalist, Onion Man, 2010
Banff Centre for the Arts, Fiction Writing Studio, 2001
Sage Hill Writing Experience, Fiction Workshop, 2000
Praxis Screenwriting Fellowship, 1998

Behind the Story, "I Won't Clean the Tub," Book*hug Blog, October 13, 2023
"7 Tragicomic Books That I Love," 49th Shelf, October 2, 2023
"On Not Wanting Children," Catapult Magazine, November 15, 2022
Profile, “Rita Wong: A Poet’s Call for Environmental Action,” Quill & Quire, June, 2021
"I Won't Clean the Tub," Geist, Issue 109, Vancouver, BC, Fall 2018
"Poetry Curious? New to Poetry? Check Out These Books," All Lit Up, April 29, 2015
Town Crier, The Puritan, From the Vaults, January 23, 2014
"The Real Survivor," Red Lemonade, Brooklyn, NY, online, May 15, 2012

"Dumpster," subTerrain Magazine, Garbage Issue 98, Fall 2024
"Meaning of the Universe," Geist Magaine, No. 126, July 2024
"When the Sun Goes Down," Litter I See Project, July 1, 2023
“Let’s Say,” Micro-Climate Stories, Guelph Institute for Environmental Research, March 5, 2021
"The Job Interview: A Murder," Danforth Review, September 10, 2017
"Two Women on a Beach," Entropy Magazine, May 10, 2017
"Sit Down Beside Megan," Cosmonauts Avenue, 2nd Anniversary Issue, November 15, 2016
"The Estrangement," Room, Issue 39.2, 2016
"You Should Write My Life Story," Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Sunday Stories, Feb 28, 2016
"The Boy is Dead," The Butter, May 8, 2015
"Freight," Found Press, Spring 2015
"Remote Control," Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, November 30, 2014

"Pareidolia," "If It Keeps Me Calm," and "A Certain Type of Furniture," Speech Dries Here on the Tongue, Poetry on Environmental Collapse and Mental Health, Ed. Hollay Ghadery, Rasiqra Revulva, and Amanda Shankland, Porcupine’s Quill, Anthology, 2025
"When a Tree Develops Problems," Windsor Review, Vol. 54, No. 2, March, 2022
"Tumble in the Hay," "Dark Thoughts," and "I Should Have Invited Him In," Fence Magazine, Winter 2021
"Water," Poetry Pause, League of Canadian Poets, June 22, 2020
"Blue Teacup," Arc Magazine, 91, March 2020
"Raccoons Have Poor Impulse Control," This Magazine, May, 2019
4 Poems, The Chicago Review, #METOO, 2018
"Water," The Puritan, Issue 41: Spring 2018, June 12, 2018
"Question," Bad Nudes 3.2, May 4, 2018
"Sealed Containers," "No Legs or Arms," "World 3," "I Wish I Thought of Everything First," "World 5," and "Don't Disturb Me I'm Writing a Love Poem," Lemon Hound, March 15, 2018
"Your Poem Should Have Four Legs," Geist, 97, Vancouver, BC, July 2015
"Malice," "The Country Fair," and "Air Vents" in the new Lemon Hound, Vol. 1, September 21, 2012
"Jesus Christ" and "Oprah," Descant, Toronto, ON, Issue 157, p. 33-34, June 2012
"Pipeline," The Capilano Review, Ecology Issue, Vancouver, BC, No. 3.16, p. 67, January 2012
"Bookstore," HTMLGIANT, Sunday Service, Ed. Melissa Broader, USA, November 27, 2011