Shortlisted

My short story "The Purple Finch" has been shortlisted for Storyteller magazine's 2004 Great Canadian Story Contest. Shortlisted stories and the announcement of winners will be published in the Summer 2004 issue of Storyteller.

Goin' to Sage Hill

I've been accepted into the fiction workshop at the Sage Hill Writing Experience, July 26-August 5, 2004, St. Michael's Retreat, Saskatchewan. The workshop will be facilitated by Vancouver-based novelist and short story writer Lynn Coady.

Cover story

I wrote the cover story for the Spring 2004 issue of The Third Degree, alumni magazine of The University of Regina. The article profiles five alums who have made their mark in literature: Ken Mitchell (pictured on the magazine cover at left), Connie Gault, Marlis Wesseler, Tim Lilburn and Ross King. Mitchell is a member of The Order of Canada; Wesseler's second novel, South of the Border, will be published this fall by Coteau Books; Lilburn won the 2003 Governor General's Award for Poetry for Kill-site; and King cracked the New York Times bestseller list in 2003 with Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling.