Pride is about to start in St. John’s, on the island of Ktaqmkuk, and I’ll be appearing on a panel, “Trans Writes”, this Sunday. But first, some context: Pride festivals across the Northern hemisphere have been happening in the shadow of the genocide in Palestine. If you’re not yet familiar with No Pride in Genocide, please check them...
Read MoreMar 4: Reading for Migrant Spring
On Sunday the 17th, I have my first reading in St. John’s coming up. Here are the details, as drawn from the Facebook event: The Anti-Racism Coalition and The Quilted Collective Present Migrant Spring: A Day of Migrant Writing and Spoken Word When: Sunday, March 17 at 2:00 Where: MUN University Centre, The Landing (UC3015) My thanks to The...
Read MoreNew job to bring changes to my freelance work and creative practice
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...
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