Cover Reveal!

I’m excited to share the cover of my upcoming collection of short stories, A Way to Be Happy, publishing 10 September with Biblioasis. For details, and to pre-order, click here.

Excerpted from Off the Record

I’m delighted to have a snippet of my contribution to Off the Record excerpted in Quill and Quire. Read it here. The entire volume, featuring interviews with Kristyn Dunnion, Cynthia Flood, Shaena Lambert, Elise Levine and Kathy Page, is both entertaining and insightful for readers and writers at all stages of their careers.

Off the Record

Excited to be part of this anthology. Publisher’s Weekly says: “In this edifying volume, short story writer Metcalf (Temerity & Gall) pairs shorts by Canadian authors Caroline Adderson, Kristyn Dunnion, Cynthia Flood, Shaena Lambert, Elise Levine, and Kathy Page with the writers’ meditations on their processes and literary careers… Aspiring writers will be enlightened.” Read …

Writing Retreat at Hollyhock 17-22 September, 2023

I’m thrilled to be hosting this writing retreat with the inimitable Kathy Page. If you are a writer, childhood can be your creative Eden. Whether you want to use childhood experiences directly as subject matter in fiction, memoir or poetry, or translate the powerfully imprinted memories and sensations into “emotional autobiography,” or capture the child’s …