the ottawa book awards are tonight! (with some updates, including an article on me in fifty-five plus,

Although I'm sure you already knew that. My collection of short stories, On Beauty (University of Alberta Press, 2024) is up for the award, which is pretty exciting [see my post on such, including links to all the shortlisted titles here]. Might I win my first ever book award? As part of the shortlist announcement, CBC Radio even replayed the interview that Alan Neal did with me over at All In A Day, which I think is worth listening to. As the collection took seven years to write and another seven to place with a publisher, I've already a wealth of short stories for my next project, including this one, recently published online at MicroLit.

And: given I know how important these updates are to everyone out there, be sure to catch this review my new poetry collection, the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025), via The Seaboard Review. I also read a few poems from such in a video posted as part of DMQ's Virtual Salon, which you can catch over here. I also did an interview with Dennis Rimmer (brother of David, apparently, a much beloved Ottawa bookseller who ran the late, lamented After Stonewall Books until retirement) who spoke to me about the new poetry collection for his podcast, Talking Books & Stuff, back in August (posted online back in September, but he apparently forgot to tell me). 

A poem from my current manuscript-in-progress, "The Museum of Practical Things" [see my note on such here] recently posted, a poem composed for David Currie and Jennifer Baker's summer nuptials, over at Minor Literature[s]. Oh, and you know the ottawa small press book fair is coming up soon, yes? I've also some recent further poems over at Noir Sauna and Pamenar Press. And yes, there's an article on me in the current issue of Fifty-Five Plus, although I'm not sure how I feel about any of that. It is a really good article, but I mean, I'm barely plus.