National Magazine Award for Fiction Nominations

Two stories from Ellen In Pieces have been nominated for a National Magazine Award for Fiction: “Ellen-Celine, Celine-Ellen,” which appeared in Canadian Notes and Queries and is forthcoming in Best Canadian Stories 13, and “I Feel Lousy,” published in Eighteen Bridges, winner of the 2013 Gold Medal Award for Fiction from the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association.  Thank …

Ellen-Celine, Celine-Ellen

I received my copy of Canadian Notes and Queries, which is always a guilty pleasure.  The added bonus this time is to see my own story “Ellen-Celine, Celine-Ellen” published there.  Check out this naughty and nice magazine.

Best Canadian Stories 12

I’ve just received my contributor’s copy of Best Canadian Stories 12.  In it are the ten stories the venerable editor John Metcalf has selected as the best of the year.  I’m honoured that my “Poppycock” is included along with stories by writers whose work I’ve long admired – Shaena Lambert, Douglas Glover, Stephen Heighton,  Lynn Coady, …