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stories & publications

​"A Week on the Water." The Bristol Short Story Prize's THE WINNERS Anthology. 2024. UK. 

The Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology #8. 2015. UK.

Fiction

Winner of the 2015 Bristol Short Story Prize

Honourable mention in the 2015 Little Bird Writing Contest

"The Echoes Are All Mine." The New Quarterly. Issue 158, 2021. Canada.
Fiction
Longlisted for the 2020 CBC Short Story Prize
Longlisted for the 2020 CVC/Exile Short Story Award


"Gone Supernova." The New Quarterly. Issue 149, 2019. Canada.
Creative Nonfiction

Finding the Form.” (Online companion piece to “Gone Supernova.”) The New Quarterly. 2019. Canada.

Creative Nonfiction

"Bayfront." The New Quarterly. Issue 148, 2018. Canada.
Fiction

"Trinkets, Trophies, Totems, Things." Grasslimb. 2018. USA.
Fiction

"Drift, maybe fall." subTerrain Magazine #78. 2018. Canada.
Fiction
Winner of the 2017 Lush Triumphant Literary Award

"Those Days Just a Glimmer." The Fiddlehead. Fall 2017. Canada.
Fiction
Winner of the 2018 Hamilton Public Library Freda Waldon Award for Fiction

"Skinks." The 2017 Short Story Advent Calendar. October 2017. Canada.
Fiction
Winner of the 2016 Fiddlehead Best Short Fiction Prize
First appeared in The Fiddlehead


"One Riser." ​Time and Place (Chapbook). September 2017. Canada.
Fiction

"#BecauseSocial." The Writer Magazine. July 2017. USA.
Creative Nonfiction
Winner of The 2018 Alvin A. Lee Award for Creative Non-Fiction

"Hard Sell." Litro. June 2017. UK.
Fiction

"Pieces of Echo." The Writer Magazine, March 2017. USA.
Fiction
Winner of The Writer Magazine's "Our Darkest Hour" Prize

"Cut Road." Riddle Fence 24, 2016. Canada.
Fiction
​Nominated by Riddle Fence for the 2017 Writers' Trust / McClellan & Stewart Journey Prize

"Brother." ​Hamilton Magazine, October 2016. Canada.
Creative Nonfiction

SAINTS, UNEXPECTED. subTerrain Magazine 74, 2016. Canada.
Novel excerpt.

"Rattle and Quiet." The Relief Journal, 2016. International.
Creative Nonfiction

"Skinks." The Fiddlehead. Issue 267, Spring 2016. Canada.
Fiction
Winner of the 2016 Fiddlehead Best Short Fiction Prize

"Barton Walkup." Prairie Fire Magazine. Vol. 37, No. 2. July, 2016. Canada.
Fiction

"Washed (Or, the Cleanest I Might Ever Be)." The Puritan. Issue 33, Spring 2016. Canada.
Creative Nonfiction
Longlisted for the 2015 CBC Creative Nonfiction Award

"Two Barbers." The Sycamore Review. Issue 27.2. Spring 2016. USA.
Creative nonfiction

"You'll See the Sky." The New Quarterly. Issue 137, 2016. Canada.
Creative nonfiction
Honourable Mention for the 2017 Alvin A. Lee Award

​"The Marks on Your Back." Urban Graffiti. 2015. Canada.
Fiction

"The Math." The Nottingham Review​. 2015. UK.
Flash Fiction

"Bloom." Agnes and True. 2015. Canada.
Flash Fiction

"Declination." The Prairie Journal. 2015. Canada.
Fiction
Nominated by The Prairie Journal for the 2016 Writers' Trust / McClellan & Stewart Journey Prize
Honourable mention in The Master's Review 2015 anthology contest


"Qom." EVENT Magazine. Issue 43.3, 2015. Canada.
Fiction
Longlisted for the 2014 CBC Canada Writes Short Story Award

"The Heat Comes Early this Year." Litro Magazine. December 2014. UK.
Creative nonfiction
Shortlisted for EVENT Magazine's 2014 Creative Nonfiction Award

“Mom 2 Mom.” The Dalhousie Review. Summer, 2014. Canada.
Fiction
Winner of the 2015 Short Works Prize

“Cathedral Language.” Mash Stories. July, 2014. USA.
Flash Fiction
Second place in Mash Stories' quarterly flash fiction contest

Fairly Traded.” The New Quarterly. Issue 131, 2014. Canada.
Fiction
Notable mention for The New Quarterly's 2013 Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award.

“Finding Iraq.” The New Quarterly. Issue 131, 2014. Canada.
Creative nonfiction
Recommended for Best New Writer category at the 2015 National Magazine Awards
Finalist for The New Quarterly's Edna Staebler Award for nonfiction
Honourable mention for the 2015 Short Works Prize


“The Bean Counters.” Biz Magazine. November, 2012. Canada.
Feature

“Buddy’s Mirror.” The New Guard Literary Review, Vol. 2. 2011. USA.
​Fiction
Finalist for The New Guard Literary Review's 2011 Machigonne Fiction Award.

"A Command Performance." The Storyteller. December, 2011. USA.
Fiction

“East of James.” Creative nonfiction. Urbanicity. December, 2011. Canada.
Creative Nonfiction

Masha’Allah: Whatever the Will of God.” The Banner. April, 2011. USA.
Essay

“An Ocean View.” Fringe Magazine. September, 2008. USA.
Creative Nonfiction

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