Feb 27, 2026
I’m pleased to be co-facilitating Tapping the Stream, a six-day summer writing retreat with Shaena Lambert at Hollyhock. This immersive retreat is designed to give you uninterrupted time to focus on a work in progress while engaging deeply with craft and community....
Jan 22, 2026
I’m grateful to The BC Review for this generous and thoughtful review by Lee Reid of OFF THE MAP: Vancouver Writers with Lived Experiences of Mental Health Issues, which I co-edited with Seema Shah and Kate Bird. The review engages deeply with the collection’s scope,...
Jan 22, 2026
Incite—our free event series presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library—returns on February 10, 2026 with Maggie Helwig, author of the 2025 Toronto Book Award winner, Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community. The housing crisis plaguing...
Jan 8, 2026
The Writers’ Union of Canada invites submissions to its 33rd annual Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers. Unpublished works of fiction and nonfiction up to 2,500 words in English are eligible, and writers may submit multiple entries. A $2,500 prize...
Dec 15, 2025
The Writers’ Union of Canada has opened submissions for the 33rd annual Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers. This long-running competition highlights new voices in Canadian fiction and nonfiction, offering a $2,500 prize and publication consideration for the...
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