Other Published Works
A sampling of my published work : Short Stories, essays and articles
Children's Stories
Something to Worry About in
REAL Kids Magazine
When Papa Worked the Night Shift in
REAL Kids Magazine
Short Stories
Baby Beluga - In Snow Monkey and Seventh Quark (UK). Also quarterly session winner in the Ashes short fiction contest (UK).
Boy Bouncing - In Southern Ocean Review.
But What Do I Know About Music - In the Southern Ocean Review.
Crows - Peninsular Magazine, UK
Don't You Remember Me? - In the now defunct British literary journal Breakfast All Day.
Five Uses for a Paring Knife- In Room of One's Own.
Grace Enough - Second Place, fiction category of the North Shore Writers Assoc. contest, published in its anthology, fall 2008.
Hair Games - In Worldwide Writers, subsequently published in Seventh Quark.(Also joint First Place winner of the Short Story Contest at the Southampton Writers' Conference - UK)
House Hunting- In the British print journal Buzzwords
Language of the Air - In the Paumanok Review.
Little Grasshopper - In print in Buzzwords
Long Time No See - In the now defunct British literary journal Breakfast All Day.
Mama Don't - In Lichen Literary Journal (also winner of the Lichfield Short Story contest, UK).
Mirror Image - In print in Buzzwords (now online only)
Painted Nails - Included in the Fish Anthology. Subsequently published in the Arts Council of Surrey Spotlight.(Also First Place winner of the Short Short Story Contest, Southampton Writers' Conference contest.)
The Properties of Glass - In Moondance.
Songs in the Dark - In The MacGuffin and the Clackamas Review. (Also winner of the Victoria Literary Slam Fiction contest in earlier version
Reading by the Light of the Moon.)
Sign Language - Short story in the Paumanok Review.
Skim Milk - First Place for fiction in the Surrey Stories contest sponsored by the Surrey Arts Centre and Kwantlen University College, May 2005. Published in the anthology Surrey Stories.
Stopping at High River - Online at Brady Magazine , subsequently published in print in Buzzwords and in the anthology Down in the Valley (Pub. Ekstasis).
Articles & Essays
Advice my Mother Never Gave Me - Personal essay in the Vancouver Sun.
Beginning Poetry - Article in Quarter Moon Quarterly
Bloomsbury Slept Here - Travel article in WordWorks
Egypt- Travel pieces in the Tri-City News, Halifax Herald, and other regional newspapers.
Frisco Myths Debunked from Atop Tower - Travel article in Tri-City News Observing the Three Rs - Article in Cottage Magazine
Grantwriting - In WordWorks. Federation of BC Writers. (Article)
Group Therapy - Finding, forming, and participating in writing groups - Article at the Writers Resource Centre; subsequently in the 13th. Edition of the Canadian Writer's Guide.
Hey, Ms. Victim, Have I Got Deal for You - Satire in the Vancouver Sun, Saturday Review
I Knew There Was an Animal Under the Trees - poem in Quarter Moon Quarterly
Iraq, Loved & Lost - Essay in Maclean's Magazine.
Make Every Word Count - Article in the Writer Magazine
Making the Best of Your Off-Desk Time - Article in the Writer Magazine.
May I Put You On Hold? - Article in the Aug 2007 Writer Magazine
Nile Journey - travel article in Travel Impulse
The Three Ps of Promotion - Article in The Writer Magazine.
Someday we'll be Together - Poem in Quarter Moon Quarterly
The Road to Basra - Memoir in Eclectica.
We Have Ways of Making You Talk: Interrogation techniques to help uncover your characters' stories in The Writer Magazine
Writer, Edit Thyself - Article in Writers' Resource Center.
Writing Inside - Essay in the British print journal Buzzwords.
Writing From Life - Article in Canadian Author Magazine
Writing with Intent -Article in ByLine Magazine.