Alessandra Naccarato and I are judging the 2018 Glass Buffalo writing competition. I’m handling the short fiction, and the wonderful Alessandra is on poetry. Send Glass Buffalo your work!

Very happy to share that Bad Endings is up for the BC Book Prize Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award! I love the shortlists this year, so great to see superstars Daniel Zomparelli, Zoey Leigh Peterson, Carys Cragg, Jonina Kirton, Mercedes Eng, Nicola Campbell and Eden Robinson on the list, and so many more!

This happened! Thanks to Quill & Quire, and photographer Alana Paterson. And many thanks to Dina Del Bucchia and Brian Kaufman for hanging out in the rain with me for 3 hours and making sure my hair didn’t get too frizzy.

What an amazing week in Toronto at the Writers’ Trust awards! Congrats to all the winners, and many thanks to everyone at the Writers’ Trust for being such great hosts. Rogers made short videos of each of the fiction award nominees, here’s mine!

I have some readings and panels coming up!

October 22nd: Ottawa Writers Fest. Panel with Eden Robinson.

October 23rd: Queens University. Reading from Bad Endings.

October 24th: Toronto @ Type Books, Queen St. West. Reading from Bad Endings.

October 25th: Toronto @ IFOA. Rogers Writers’ Trust panel with Claire Cameron, David Chariandy, Omar El Akkad and Leanne Simpson.

And then I’m going to fly back home and sleep forever.

Thanks to the CBC for adding my voice to the list of fine writers who have done the Magic 8 Ball!

Read it here.

Thanks to Sean Cranbury for the photo.

Such an honour to be at the Mayor’s Arts Awards on October 11, and I’m thrilled that Bad Endings won the Vancouver Book Award! Congrats to all the nominees, and many thanks to the judging panel, and the City of Vancouver.

If I look a little nervous here, it’s because I was a little nervous! I didn’t have a speech prepared, but people tell me I did okay. 🙂