In exciting and life-altering news, on May 15, I’ll be starting a permanent, full-time role as the Writer/Editor at Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC). CFCC is a non-profit that addresses food insecurity. Their work includes advocating for action on a root cause of food insecurity: poverty. Needless to say, I am raring to start in this role. So...
Read MoreMay 22: Reading for Tulsa Glitterary Queer Reading Series
This is bit late notice I know, but I am giving an online reading this Sunday night (or Monday morning for east coast Australians)! I am grateful to the poet, translator, and LGBQT+ writers’ advocate Steve Bellin-Oka for this opportunity. This event is part of the Tulsa Glitterary Queer Reading Series.
Read MoreWriting the end: Artist residency at 100 West Corsicana
Back in October 2019, I blogged about being awarded an artist residency at 100 West Corsicana, an international artist residency program in Corsicana, Texas (about an hour from Dallas). However, the residency was subsequently postponed twice, due to the pandemic. But next month, from March 4 to April 5, I will finally be doing the residency. I’m very...
Read MoreMay 21: Opening for Vipoo Srivilasa’s Wellness Deity exhibition
“The first songs resounded in a small town, back then a virus hotspot.” These are the opening lines to a piece I wrote late last year—the first short story I’ve written in around a decade. This flash fiction (in this case, a fiction piece under 200 words) is among 20 pieces of commissioned creative writing that appears in a new...
Read MoreApr 1: Online reading for The Flywheel Reading Series, University of Mary Washington
Coming up next Thursday April 1, I’ll be giving an online reading and Q&A with creative writing students from University of Mary Washington (in Fredericksburg, Virginia) who have been studying stories from Look Who’s Morphing. At this event, I’ll read some work from both Look Who’s Morphing and my novel-in-progress, and...
Read MoreDec 17: Reading and panel talk for Queer Writers, Speaking Across Borders
Update: This event was recorded and is now available for viewing: # I have done a few online gigs during the pandemic, most of them being class visits (hello to any of those students who might be reading this: students at Kew High School and T Cooper’s fiction-writing students at Emory University 👋🏽). I miss in-person appearances and the immediacy of...
Read MoreNov 4: Reading for the Toronto launch of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
Coming in November, I’ll be reading for the Toronto launch of Hazel Jane Plante’s Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian). Also reading will be Trish Salah and, of course, Hazel Jane Plante.
Read MoreAwarded an artist residency at 100 West Corsicana
Yesterday, I learned that I’ve been award an artist residency at 100 West Corsicana, which is based in Corsicana, Texas (about an hour’s drive from Dallas).
Read MoreSept 28: Panel for JLF Toronto
On Friday Sept 28 at 5:30pm, I’ll be on a panel with Farzana Doctor, Gwen Benaway, and Shree Paradkar (who will be moderating) for the inaugural year of JLF Toronto, a Toronto edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival. The event takes place in the Young Centre (50 Tank House Lane—it’s in the Distillery Historic District), in the Tank House...
Read MoreCrosstown Arts residency update and Jul 23: PechaKucha talk
Since June 3, I’ve been on an artist residency at Crosstown Arts in Memphis (a fantastic residency program; applications for 2020 close today!). While here, I’ve been doing a major revision (including a restructure) of the penultimate chapter of my novel-in-progress. The revision has been going well, in many ways better than I had anticipated....
Read MoreMay 6: Reading for the Toronto launch of This One Looks Like A Boy
I haven’t been doing many readings lately but I have one coming up on Monday May 6. Vancouver writer Lorimer Shenher’s memoir This One Looks Like A Boy: My Gender Journey to Life As A Man is being launched as part of Proust & Company, the reading series run by Glad Day Bookshop. Confirmed performers at the event are poet and author Gwen...
Read MoreAwarded an Ontario Arts Council grant
Yesterday, I learned that I’ve been awarded a Literary Creation Projects (Works for Publication) grant from the Ontario Arts Council. The grant, my first from a Canadian arts funding body, is for the further development of my novel-in-progress. I have really needed this—not even “just” the grant itself, but the morale boost here in...
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