Writing
Fiction (Books)
The World After Us (novel; Knopf Canada, forthcoming)
fiction (Anthologies)
"LACEC217863—EZ" in Fables for the 21st Century (Banff Centre Press, 2018)
"Thursday night karaoke" in A Mixtape of Words (Little Fiction, 2017)
"5’9, 135, 6c, br bl" in Friend. Follow. Text. #storiesFromLivingOnline (Enfield & Wizenty, 2013)
"You Were Loved" in Journey Prize Stories 24 (McClelland & Stewart, 2012)
FICTION (STORIES)
“Lost Boys” in adda (2023)
“You Were Loved” in Inostrannaya Literatura (Foreign Literature) (2019)
“I Don’t Know When I’ll Be Back” in The New Quarterly (2017)
“Efren’s Place” in The Winnipeg Review (2016)
“Eileen” in Grain (2016)
“A Week in Spain” in On the UP – Union Pearson Express (2015)
“Dar a Luz” in Event (2015)
“Day of the Dead” in Prairie Fire (2015)
“Henrietta” in Prairie Fire (2015)
“Thursday night karaoke” in Little Fiction (2015)
“Coconut Dreams” in This Magazine (2015)
“Getting Run Over While Jaywalking Only Happens to Other People” in PRISM international (2014)
“1987” in The Dalhousie Review (2014)
“Gail is a Punk” in Grain (2014)
“When We Die” in Descant (2014)
“#Fortune Teller” in The Puritan (2014)
“Esperanza” in Joyland (2014)
“In Memoriam” in Little Fiction (2013)
“Diagnostic Checklist: A Review of Common Body Fluids in the Case of Casey Cripps” in Little Fiction (2013)
“5’9, 135, 6c, br bl” in Plenitude (2012)
“You Were Loved” in The Malahat Review (2012)
“Sushi for the Homeless” in Grain (2011)
“Are You Still There?” in Prairie Fire (2010)
“Notes Towards a Film About My Childhood” in Prairie Fire (2010)
“Johnson’s Life” in The Antigonish Review (2008)
Non-Fiction (ESSAYS)
1974 in Grain (2017)
Reflections on writing mindfully in Event (2017)
27000 Breaths in Big Truths (2016)
On writing vulnerability in Puritan (2015)
Articles of Faith in PRISM international (2015)
The Moon in Scorpio in Prairie Fire (2013)
Letters to Andersonville in Event (2009)
Non-Fiction (RECENT JOURNALISM)
How PEI Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Roundabout in Walrus (June, 2024)
How a Summer House Triggered an Existential Crisis on PEI in Walrus (October, 2023)
Can PEI Survive Another Big Storm? in Walrus (September, 2023)
This Dark Place That Made Us in Atlantic Books Today (May, 2021)
Will PEI Start a New Green Wave? in Walrus (April, 2019)
The Many Reinventions of Atlantic Canadian Fiction in The Puritan (March, 2018)
Maritime Gothic in Halifax Magazine (January, 2018)
Reconciliation, One Story at a Time in Trek Magazine (December, 2017)
In the Midst of the Journey: Canada C3 as a Metaphor for Canada in Trent Magazine (November, 2017)
Nakkumek, Canada C3! on Pearson College UWC (August, 2017)
Sea expedition gives voice to unwritten stories in Toronto Star (August, 2017)
Trevor Corkum's first hand view of Canada C3 expedition in Toronto Star (August, 2017)
15 books for Canada 150 in Toronto Star (July, 2017)
Toronto's Glad Day bookshop is a beacon for pride in Toronto Star (June, 2017)
Encouraging young voices in difficult times in Toronto Star (February, 2017)
BOOK Reviews
You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations by Shane Neilson (Atlantic Books Today)
Out of Mind by David Bergen (Atlantic Books Today)
Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis (Canadian Notes & Queries)
We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos by John Barton (Hamilton Review of Books)
My Camino by Patrick Warner (Toronto Star)
This Wicked Tongue by Elise Levine (Toronto Star)
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr (Toronto Star)
Late Breaking by KD Miller (Canadian Notes & Queries)
North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farah (Toronto Star)
No Quarter by John Jantunen (Toronto Star)
The Grimoire of Kensington Market by Lauren B. Davis (Toronto Star)
Original Prin by Randy Boyagoda (Toronto Star)
My Name is a Knife by Alix Hawley (Toronto Star)
When We Were Birds by Maria Mutch (Toronto Star)
That Tiny Life by Erin Frances Fisher (Hamilton Review of Books)
Transparent City by Ondjaki (trans. Stephen Henighan) (Toronto Star)
See What Can Be Done by Lorrie Moore (Toronto Star)
The Neighbourhood by Mario Vargas Llosa (Toronto Star)
Building Fires in the Snow by Lucian Childs and Martha Amore (Eds.) (Plenitude)
The Years, Months, Days by Yan Lianke (Toronto Star)
Malagash by Joey Comeau (Globe & Mail)
The Videofag Book by Jordan Tannahill and William Ellis (Toronto Star)
Blood Fable by Oisin Curran (Toronto Star)
Lost in September by Kathleen Winter (Toronto Star)
Strangers With the Same Dream by Alison Pick (Toronto Star)
If, Clara by Martha Baillie (Toronto Star)
What Can You Do? by Cynthia Flood (Toronto Star)
The Burning Ground by Adam O'Riordan (Toronto Star)
Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash (Toronto Star)
Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez (Hamilton Review of Books)
The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron (Toronto Star)
Barrelling Forward by Eva Crocker (Toronto Star)
Encircling by Carl Frode Tiller (Toronto Star)
The Dark and Other Love Stories by Deborah Willis (Toronto Star)
MOSHI MOSHI by Banana Yoshimoto (Toronto Star)
Willem DeKooning's Paintbrush by Kerry Lee Powell (The Malahat Review)
The Boy Who Escaped Paradise by J.M. Lee (Toronto Star)
When Nothing Looks Familiar by Shawn Syms (Plenitude)
interviews
*All interviews below appear as part of The Chat on 49thShelf, unless otherwise noted.
Elamin Abdelmahmoud (Son of Elsewhere)
Jordan Abel (Injun)
Jordan Abel (Nishga)
Gil Adamson (Ridgerunner)
Carmen Aguirre (Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter)
André Alexis (Fifteen Dogs)
Karim Alrawi (Book of Sands)
Madhur Anand (This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart)
Samuel Archibald (Arvida)
Phyllis Aronoff (Descent into Night)
Jonathan Auxier (Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster)
Oana Avasilichioaei (Readopolis)
Mona Awad (13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl)
Shashi Bhat (Death by a Thousand Cuts)
Carleigh Baker (Bad Endings)
Gary Barwin (Yiddish for Pirates)
David Bateman (DR SAD)
Meredith Batt & Dusty Green (Len & Cub)
Eli Baxter (Aki-wayn-zih)
Billy-Ray Belcourt (The World is a Wound)
David Bergen (Out of Mind)
David Bergen (Here the Dark)
Sarah Bernstein (Study for Obedience)
Kris Bertin (Use Your Imagination!)
Kris Bertin (Bad Things Happen)
Kris Bertin (in The Puritan)
David Bezmozgis (Immigrant City)
Cicely Belle Blain (Burning Sugar)
Erin Bow (Stand on the Sky)
David Bradford (Dream of No One But Myself)
Dionne Brand (The Blue Clerk)
Mary Fairhurst Breen (Any Kind of Luck at All)
Carol Bruneau (Brighten the Corner Where You Are)
Cody Caetano (Half-Bads in White Regalia)
Eva Campbell (Africville)
Paul Carlucci (A Plea for Constant Motion)
Anne Carson (Norma Jeane Baker of Troy)
Michael Redhead Champagne (We Need Everyone)
Aaron Chapman (Vancouver Vice)
Lucian Childs (Dreaming Home)
Corinna Chong (The Whole Animal)
Kevin Chong (The Double Life of Benson Yu)
Kevin Chong (The Plague)
Michael Christie (If I Fall, If I Die)
Megan Gail Coles (Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club)
Christy Ann Conlin (Watermark)
Ivan Coyote (Care Of: Letters, Connections, Cures)
Buffy Cram (Once Upon An Effing Time)
Lucas Crawford (The High Line Scavenger Hunt)
Eva Crocker (All I Ask)
Eva Crocker (in The Puritan)
Michael Crummey (The Innocents)
Nancy Jo Cullen (The Western Alienation Merit Badge)
Rachel Cusk (Outline)
Rachel Cusk (Transit)
Joseph Dandurand (The East Side of it All)
Craig Davidson (Saturday Night Ghost Club)
Sadiqa de Meijer (alfabet/alphabet)
J.D. Derbeyshire (Mercy Gene)
Anthony DeSa (Children of the Moon)
Patrick DeWitt (French Exit)
Cherie Dimaline (The Marrow Thieves)
Christopher Diraddo (The Family Way)
Dorothy Dittrich (The Piano Teacher)
Farzana Doctor (All Inclusive)
Emma Donoghue (The Wonder)
Philippa Dowding (Firefly)
Norma Dunning (Tainna)
Éric Dupont (Songs for the Cold of Heart)
Esi Edugyan (Washington Black)
francesca ekwuyasi (Curious Sounds: A Dialogue in Three Movements)
Omar El-Akkad (What Strange Paradise)
The Fan Brothers (The Barnabus Project)
Eufemia Fantetti (My Father, Fortune-tellers, and Me)
Jen Ferguson (The Summer of Bitter and Sweet)
Anne Fleming (The Goat)
Erin Frances Fisher (That Tiny Life)
Sheree Fitch (Because We Love, We Cry)
Krista Foss (Half Life)
Brian Francis (Break In Case of Emergency)
Kim Fu (Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century)
Linda Gaboriau (Birds of a Kind)
Zsuzsi Gartner (The Beguiling)
Michael Gates (Hollywood in the Klondike)
Camilla Gibb (The Relatives)
Chantal Gibson (How She Read)
Don Gillmor (To The River: Losing My Brother)
Nora Gold (in The Winnipeg Review)
Michelle Good (Five Little Indians)
Seyward Goodhand (Even That Wildest Hope)
Patrick Grace (Deviant)
Shauntay Grant (Africville)
Daniel Griffin (Two Roads Home)
Brett Josef Grubisic (From Up River and For One Night Only)
Faye Guenther (Swimmers in Winter)
Rawi Hage (Beirut Hellfire Society)
Kevin Hardcastle (In the Cage)
Michael Harris (All We Want)
Michael Harris (Solitude)
Richard Harrison (On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood)
Teva Harrison (In-Between Days)
Kim Senklip Harvey (Kamloopa)
Erum Shazia Hasan (We Meant Well)
Steven Heighton (Reaching Mithymna)
Steven Heighton (The Waking Comes Late)
Sarah Henstra (The Red Word)
Catherine Hernandez (Scarborough)
Nicholas Herring (Some Hellish)
Sheila Heti (Motherhood)
Sheila Heti (Pure Colour)
Christine Higdon (Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue)
Liz Howard (Bruised Cosmos)
Naseem Hrab & Nahid Kazem (The Sour Cherry Tree)
David Huebert (Chemical Valley)
Aislinn Hunter (The Certainties)
Joel Thomas Hynes (We'll All Be Burnt In Our Beds Some Night)
Djamila Ibrahim (Things Are Good Now)
Dionne Irving (The Islands)
Doyali Islam (heft)
Aisha Sasha John (I have to live)
Wanda John-Kehewin (Visions of Crow)
Harold R. Johnson (Clifford)
Amy Jones (Pebble & Dove)
Amy Jones (We're All in This Together)
Amy Jones (in The Puritan)
Eve Joseph (Quarrels)
Hiro Kanagawa (Indian Arm)
Greg Kearney (An Evening with Birdy O’Day)
Kaie Kellough (Magnetic Equator)
Chelene Knight (Dear Current Occupant)
Chelene Knight (Junie)
Joy Kogawa (Gently to Nagasaki)
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer (Wait Softly Brother)
Lynne Kutsukake (The Art of Vanishing)
Angelique Lalonde (Glorious Frazzled Beings)
Tsering Lama (We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies)
Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka (Tokyo Digs a Garden)
Eve Lazarus (Vancouver Exposed)
Martine Leavitt (Calvin)
Lazer Lederhendler (trans. The Party Wall)
Lazer Lederhendler (trans. If You Hear Me)
Amanda Leduc (Disfigured)
Jen Sookfong Lee (The Conjoined)
Benjamin Lefebvre (In the Key of Dale)
Catherine Leroux (The Party Wall)
Alex Leslie (We All Need to Eat)
Elise Levine (Say This: Two Novellas)
Ashley Little (Niagara Motel)
Thea Lim (An Ocean of Minutes)
John Lorinc, Rahim Thawer, and Jane Farrow (Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer)
Canisia Lubrin (The Dyzgraphxst)
Canisia Lubrin (Voodoo Hypothesis)
Donato Mancini (Same Diff)
Derek Mascarenhas (Coconut Dreams)
Annick MacAskill (Shadow Blight)
Elan Mastai (All Our Wrong Todays)
Suzette Mayr (The Sleeping Car Porter)
Alexander McLeod (Animal Person)
Darrel J. McLeod (Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age)
Iman Mersal (The Threshold)
Andrea Miller (Awakening the Heart)
Brandon Mitchell (Giju’s Gift)
Roger Mooking (Curious Sounds: A Dialogue in Three Movements)
Lisa Moore (Flannery)
Shani Mootoo (Polar Vortex)
Hannah Moscovitch (Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes)
Erín Moure (This Radiant Life)
Rhonda Mullins (Twenty-One Cardinals)
Pamela Mulloy (The Deserters)
Colleen Murphy (Pig Girl)
Lori McNulty (Life on Mars)
Pamela Mordecai (Red Jacket)
Susan Musgrave (Exculpatory Lilies)
Téa Mutonji (Shut Up You’re Pretty)
Hasan Namir (Umbilical Cord)
Nolan Natasha (I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me?)
Hoa Nguyen (Violet Energy Ingots)
Cecily Nicholson (Wayside Sang)
Shanice Nicole (Dear Black Girls)
Grace O'Connell (Be Ready for the Lightning)
Alix Ohlin (Dual Citizens)
Ed O'Loughlin (Minds of Winter)
Tolu Oloruntoba (The Junta of Happenstance)
Heather O'Neill (Daydreams of Angels)
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia (The Son of the House)
Bahar Orang (Where Things Touch)
Janika Oza (A History of Burning)
Kathy Page (Dear Evelyn)
Kathy Page (in The Malahat Review)
Amanda Parris (Other Side of the Game)
Kevin Patterson (News from the Red Desert)
Zoey Leigh Peterson (Next Year, For Sure)
Caroline Pignat (The Gospel Truth)
Casey Plett (A Dream of a Woman)
Michelle Porter (Scratching River)
Kerry Lee Powell (in The Puritan)
Steven Price (Lampedusa)
Deepa Rajagopalan (Peacocks of Instagram)
Ahmad Danny Ramadan (The Clothesline Swing)
Michael Redhill (Bellevue Square)
C.S. Richardson (All the Colour in the World)
Jael Ealey Richardson (The Stone Thrower)
Sandra Ridley (Silvija)
David A. Robertson and Julie Flett (On the Trapline)
David Alexander Roberston and Julie Flett (When We Were Alone)
Eden Robinson (Son of a Trickster)
David Roche (Standing at the Back Door of Happiness)
Damian Rogers (Dear Leader)
Laisha Rosnau (Little Fortress)
Naben Ruthnum (Curry: Eating, Reading and Race)
Yusuf Saadi (Pluviophile)
Emily St John Mandel (The Glass Hotel)
Nadine Sander-Green (Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit)
Robyn Sarah (My Shoes Are Killing Me)
Anakana Schofield (Martin John)
Gregory Scofield (Witness, I Am)
Howard Scott (Descent Into Night)
Vivek Shraya (even this page is white)
Nilofar Shidmehr (Divided Loyalties)
Bren Simmers (The Work)
Karen Solie (The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out)
Michael V. Smith (Bad Ideas)
Sydney Smith and JonArno Lawson (Sidewalk Flowers)
John Elizabeth Stintzi (Junebat)
Moez Surani (Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real?)
Claire Tacon (In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo)
Tanya Talaga (Seven Fallen Feathers)
Jordan Tannahill (The Listeners)
Jordan Tannahill (Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom)
Jordan Tannahill (Liminal)
Jess Taylor (Pauls)
Timothy Taylor (The Rule of Stephens)
Souvankham Thammavongsa (How to Pronounce Knife)
Souvankham Thammavongsa (in Hamilton Review of Books)
Madeleine Thien (Do Not Say We Have Nothing)
Joan Thomas (Five Wives)
Rebecca Thomas (I’m Finding My Talk)
Kelly S. Thompson (And Still I Cannot Save You)
Kelly S. Thompson (Girls Need Not Apply: Field Notes from the Forces)
Kimiko Tobimatsu (Kimiko Does Cancer)
Sarah Tolmie (The Art of Dying)
Ricardo Tranjan (The Tenant Class)
Henry Tsang (White Riot)
Emily Urquhart (The Age of Creativity)
Richard Van Camp (Gather)
Guy Vanderhaeghe (Daddy Lenin and Other Stories)
Katherena Vermette (The Break)
Bill Waiser (A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905)
Eric Walters (The King of Jam Sandwiches)
Jack Wang (We Too Alone)
Betsy Warland (Oscar of Between)
Shannon Webb-Campbell (I am a Body of Land)
Judith Weisz Woodworth (translator, History of the Jews of Quebec)
Jessica Westhead (Things Not to Do)
Joshua Whitehead (Jonny Appleseed)
Zoe Whittall (The Best Kind of People)
Carolyn Whitman (Clara at the Door with a Revolver)
Ian Williams (Reproduction)
Mark L. Winston (Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive)
Michelle Winters (I Am a Truck)
Graeme Wood (The Way of Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State)
David Yee (carried away on the crest of a wave)
Daniel Zomparelli (in The Winnipeg Review)