Writer in Residence
CHICKEN DINNER | What’s that thing they say? One door closes and another … something or other? Whelp. I think this is the something or other, because two doors closed (in a sense, ...
Whistler
ONCE UPON A TIME | I lived in Vancouver. It was in my twenties and as a direct result, my time there feels significant in that way that all things that took place in those strange and formative ...
The Write Cup
JEN HANCOCK | I’m signing books in Saint John this week! Today’s post is a shortie. Come on down to The Write Cup Bookstore Cafe in SJ on Wednesday because I’ll be there, ...
MIPP Double Finalist
BIG LEAGUE CHEW | It’s been more than two months since I found out that I am not just a finalist, but a double finalist (meaning I have two separate poems in the running) for the Montreal ...
Fourscore
CELEBRATIONS | Today, my Dad turns 80. He made it. There have been many times over the past twenty years when I was sure he wouldn’t, but here we are, against all odds. I texted him as much ...
Poetry weekend no. 23
LAST MINUTE ALERT | Okay, so I’ve been moved to the final reading slot on the Saturday evening of UNB’s Poetry Weekend. I was supposed to be reading in an afternoon slot. It’s a ...
Qwerty 51: Post & Beam
NEW PUB | Just a quickie post today to let you know that I am honoured to have a new poem out in Qwerty 51, the magazine’s 30th Anniversary issue. It was at a local open mic that the ...
Welsh Poetry Competition
HIGHLY COMMENDED | So as part of my rebuilding year (trademark?) I kind of cast a wide net. A very wide net. After twenty years of not submitting anywhere, I had so much material sitting around ...
Family superhighway
STORYTELLING | This week, the whole WIBA announcement thing got me dicombobulated and off-track, so I completely forgot to post about the storytelling show I participated in at the Charlotte ...
Landmarks is a WIBA Finalist
FINALIST ANNOUNCEMENT | While I have hesitated to post about this here (it felt premature), it seems now is finally the time to tell you that I have just been announced as a finalist for a ...
Friends and family
LIVE & IN-PERSON | I can’t believe it’s been nearly four months since my first storytelling show happened at the Charlotte Streets Arts Centre here in Fredericton. But it has! If ...
Yours truly is beet red
CRINGE REPORT | A couple of weeks ago, I recorded a podcast appearance for Beet Red and the episode dropped today. It is titled “When they tell me to eat sh*t, I don’t nibble!” ...