Writing

“Well, the secret to writing is writing. It’s only a secret to people who don’t want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.”
Ursula K. LeGuin

I am writing a novel for middle-grade readers about garden gnomes who live in the hidden green spaces in an The Unimportant City. It’s a book within a book. The Gnominomicon is an ancient tome of gnome wisdom. But it’s under attack by trolls, and the main character must save The Gnominomicon.

WORK IN PROGRESS

A woman with an elaborate beehive hairstyle holds a garden gnome up to a little door on the back of her head.

An original image by Kate Phillips (@kate.m.phillips) which speaks to my creative process.

My head is populated with little garden gnomes and their outsized wisdom. I am on draft… wow. I couldn’t say. But I will finish this novel someday.

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My philosophy on creative writing is that stories will show up if you make space for them. Like any creature, they need safe homes to thrive and grow.

Select Publications

  • in COVID 19 Chronicles, p. 24-25. [Anthology.] The Media Club of Ottaway and Oattawa Ethnic Media Forum. 2020. ISBN 9781988657219

  • On Speck: the Canadian Magazine of the fantastic. p. 32-37. #61 Vol. 17, no. 2. ISSN 0843-476X

  • in Prairie Fire: A Canadian magazine. ofnew writing, p. 62. Vol. 21, no. 2. ISSN 0821-1124

  • in Wascana Review of Contemporary Poetry and Short Fiction, p. 67-74, Vol. 35. No 1. ISSN 0043 0412

  • In Other Voices Vol. 13, no. 1, p. 36. ISSn 0838-4789.