humble brags
Suggestions, Gaspereau Press, forthcoming
• This collection of personal and environmental poems wraps whole life experiences in phrases and overlaps poetry with prose, humour with poignancy, and plainspokenness with emotional depth.
Winner, Meridian‘s 2024 Short Prose Prize, Issue No. 48, May 2024
• “No eulogy,” a short piece revisiting a moment in time with Uncle Larry. • Prize announcement can be found here.
Winner, PRISM international’s Creative Nonfiction Contest, Jan. 2024
• “Young Bird,” an 1100-word piece on parenting and how a youngest child fits into the family constellation through the lens of nature docs on barbarous birds. • Suzannah Showler’s judge’s essay can be found here.
prose
Longreads Mar. 2025
•”Tattoos,” a 2200-word exploration of the ways memory, history, and identity are inscribed—on skin, in silence, and through generations.
The Normal School, Nov. 2024
• “The Third-Best Clown in New York,” a 4400-word essay on experiences with my former roommate, a professional clown.
The Masters Review, Jun. 2024
• “Don’t Smile,” a 4000-word essay on my first year of teaching.
The Dalhousie Review, Issue 103.3
• “House Fire,” a 4200-word short story based on my novel Junior Slump.
Jabberwock Review, Issue 44.2, Winter/Spring 2024
• “Invitations,” a 3000-word creative nonfiction piece on Nixon’s grudge with my father.
Semi-finalist, American Short Fiction‘s American Short(er) Fiction Contest, Jun. 2024
• For three short pieces under 1000 words.
Longlist, The Masters Review‘s Prose Chapbook Open, Apr. 2024
• For a collection of essays and short stories.
Semi-finalist, Black Lawrence Press‘s Black River Chapbook Competition, Feb. 2024
• Essay collection chosen as semifinalist out of nearly 800 entries.
poetry
Flash Fiction Forum in San Jose, California, Feb. 18, 2025
• Read the poem “The Sugar” at the curated hybrid event.
Peatsmoke Journal, Oct. 2024
• One short piece: “I-5.”
Potomac Review, Issue 75, Fall 2024
• One poem: “Whyte Beach.”
Queen’s Quarterly, Volume 131.3, Fall 2024
• One poem: “Galilee.”
Grain, Issue 51.4, Summer 2024
• One poem: “No more tapioca.” • Contributor spotlight.
The Malahat Review, Issue 227, Summer 2024
• Two poems: “Misc” and “Vultures.”
New World Writing Quarterly, Jul. 2024
• Five poems: “Paintings,” “Cells,” “You tell me you will not tell me because…,” “Love poem written at 23, revised by the middle-aged gardener I have become,” and “Wavelength.”
Punt Volat, Flight 8, Summer 2024
• One poem: “The crabs of Christmas Island.”
Queen’s Quarterly, Volume 131.2, Summer 2024
• One poem: “Whatever is left of my figs are yours.”
Humber Literary Review, Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring + Summer 2024
• Three poems: “An aside,” “Shifts,” and “After I walked you home and still had no courage to kiss you.”
Flash Fiction Forum in San Jose, California, May 8, 2024
• Read the poem “Henry turns one hundred” at the curated hybrid event.
Acta Victoriana, Issue 148.1, Apr. 2024
• Two poems: “For richer or for poorer” and “To the capitalist time is money but to me time is time, he said.”
The Palisades Review, Apr. 2024
• “The distance between us was once the thickness of a floor,” a short prose piece.
Queen’s Quarterly, Volume 131.1, Spring 2024
• One poem: “Haifa.”
The Nashwaak Review, Volume 50/51, Mar. 2024
• Three poems: “Diagnosis,” “Fitting,” and “Changing Back.”
Cherry Tree, Issue 10, Feb. 2024
• The poems “Henry turns one hundred” and “Retrievable” published in the “Literary Shade” section. • (Issue 10 launch party reading on Feb. 29.)
forthcoming words
The Southern Review (forthcoming, Spring 2025)
• One poem: “Photographic.”
Prairie Fire (forthcoming, Spring 2025)
•”Extinction Event of a Personal Nature,” a 4400-word essay on parenting, getting lost on a mountainside with my children, and space aliens.
JMWW (forthcoming, Spring 2025)
•”Odometers,” a 2000-word essay on twenty-first century fatherhood.
J Journal (forthcoming, Spring 2025)
• One poem: “Post.”
Chautauqua (forthcoming, Summer 2025)
• One poem: “Joker.”
