The Salish Sea in early autumn reflects the sky like glass.

Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction 2025

Still, I Do Not Love Paris” (print) • Island Writer Magazine • Winter 2025, Volume 25, Issue 2
🌟 First Prize • Creative Nonfiction, 2025 Writing Contest

Territories” (print) • Riddle Fence (print) 🇨🇦 • Summer 2025, Issue 54

Wild Things” (print) • Island Writer Magazine 🇨🇦 • Summer 2025, Volume 25, Issue 1

Artifacts of a Michigan Childhood” (print) • The MacGuffin • Schoolcraft College, Michigan • April 2025, Issue 40.2

All the Burning Stars” • Mukoli: The Magazine for Peace • Kennesaw State University, Georgia • Issue 3 • March 2025

Charring Light” (reprint online) • Short Reads • January 29, 2025

A Plea to the God of Lost Causes” • Does It Have Pockets? • January 2025
🌟 Nominated for Best of the Net 2025


A Kindness of Spanish Oranges” (reprint online) • Pilgrim Footprints Newsletter 🇨🇦 • Canadian Company of Pilgrims • Winter 2024

Mountain Fire Breath” • Changing Skies • University of Colorado, Boulder • Annual 2024, Volume III

Alpine Strawberries” • Literary Namjooning • September 2024, Issue 1
🌟 Nominated for The Pushcart Prize 2025

Corner Poetry Girl” • Third Street Review • September 2024, Issue 7, Vol. 2

Brussels” • FlashFlood • National Flash Fiction Day • June 15, 2024

Waymarker Near Briallos” (print) • Reed Magazine • San José State University • Spring 2024, Issue 157


I was honoured to serve as the Nonfiction Judge for the 2023 WriteOn! Contest by the Royal City Literary Arts Society.🇨🇦

Tropospheric” • Welter Online • University of Baltimore • Fall 2023
🌟 Semi-Finalist • CutBank Flash Prose Contest 2023

“One Side of This World” (print) • Grain Magazine 🇨🇦 • Fall 2023, Volume 51.1

Summer’s Second Flush” • The Hyacinth Review • July 21, 2023

Old, Worn, Loved” • Emerge Literary Journal • July 2023, Double Issue 26-27
🌟 Nominated for Best Microfiction 2024

Almost Amsterdam” (reprint) • Scrawl Place • June 2023
• first published in print in Hungry Zine 🇨🇦

Shadow of a Tall Saguaro” (print) • Thin Air Magazine • Northern Arizona University • Spring 2023, Issue 29

Fog Season at the Salish Sea” • HerStry • January 2023


Nudging Destiny” •🌟 3rd Prize Nonfiction • 2022 Write On! Contest • Royal City Literary Arts Society 🇨🇦 • Published in Wordplay at Work, October 2022, Issue 94

Ghost Birds” • Lunch Ticket • Antioch University • Summer/Fall 2022 • Issue 21

Ten Year Reflection: July 15, 2012” • Past Ten • July 2022

Something Still Here” • Nurture Literary • June 2022

Santorini Blue” (print) • Bacopa Literary Review • 2022 Annual Issue

Almost Amsterdam” (print) • Hungry Zine 🇨🇦 • 2022 Issue 4, Restaurants

The Missing Ring” (print) • GreenPrints • Summer 2022 • Issue 130

Fair Winds at Clover Point” • Scrawl Place • April 2022

Storm Light” (reprint) • The London Reader 🇬🇧 • Winter 2021-2022 • Bad Weather
• first published in The Sunlight Press


I was honoured to serve as the Nonfiction Judge for the 2021 WriteOn! Contest by the Royal City Literary Arts Society.🇨🇦

These Are Your Stones” • The Curator Magazine • December 2021

Unintended Prophecies” (print) • Stanchion • December 2021 • Issue 6

The Radiant All Clear” • Sylvia Magazine 🇬🇧 • November 2021

Inheritance” (print) • Madville PublishingBeing Home Anthology • September 2021

A Kindness of Spanish Oranges” • Tiny Molecules 🇫🇷 • June 2021

Storm Light” • The Sunlight Press • April 2021

Inexpressibility” (print) • Prairie Fire 🇨🇦 • Spring 2021 • Volume 42, No. 1

Smoke for the Moon” (out of print) • JADEN Magazine 🇬🇧 • Spring 2021 • Issue 1

Starshine on the Shenandoah” (print) • Hinterland 🇬🇧 • March 2021 • Issue 7

Objects of Impermanence” • Months to Years • March 2021

Drinking Tea Before the Race” • 433 Magazine • February 2021


Apple Bandits” • (mac)ro(mic) • December 2020

Chasing Sachertorte” (print and online) • Still Point Arts Quarterly • Winter 2020 • Issue 40

Driving into the Sun” • MORIA Online • Woodbury University, CA • Fall 2020 • Issue 6

Magnolia Breath” • The Cabinet of Heed • Spring 2020 • Stream of Consciousness, Drawer #6

Charring Light” (print) • Capsule Stories • Spring 2020 • Issue 4

The Tail of a Comet” • Sky Island Journal • Winter 2020 • Issue 11
🌟 First Place NonfictionRoyal City Literary Arts Society 🇨🇦 • 2020 WriteOn! Contest