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Live Poetry! Featured Poetry Reading Event in Edmonton
On July 16, 2025, I will be attending the Writers’ Guild of Alberta pub night as one of the night’s featured readers. I’m so very excited to share that my poem “When” was selected for publication by Funicular Magazine. They are an award-winning literary magazine based here in Edmonton. I feel so lucky to have…
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Journalling Through Writer’s Block
A journal or diary is more than a living autobiography; it’s a companion, too. A confidante for the mundane and exciting experiences we find ourselves in. A dumping ground for angry rants and sobbing cries. A journal is my interiority turned exterior. I almost never leave the house without it. When I write in my…
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Daily Writing Prompt #5
WordPress decided to come out swinging for today’s daily writing prompt, and I, being the writer that I am, felt obligated to respond. Anyways, I need the writing practice. Nerves, anxiety, hysteria, call it what you want, that doesn’t change much to me. I’m a nervous person. I kinda always have been. From a young…
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Memories of Snow
When the snow was thick and plush, we would don our snowsuits, boots and gloves and venture outdoors to the great winter abyss of our acreage. Our small childhood bodies would shake with the excitement of building snow forts and snowmen. We didn’t care that our knees would be soaked through within minutes or that…
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A Cigarette at Dusk
In the gloom of dusk, under the light of a single overhead bulb, she sits at the kitchen table with a cigarette balanced between two fingers. The smoke twists and twirls, waltzing away into the long night. A pile of bobby pins and a stray hair elastic teeter at the wood’s edge, half discarded from…
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Daily Writing Prompt #2
When we actually think about labour, physical, mental and emotional all taken into consideration and treated with fair weighting, it’s usually just plain awful. And when I say labour, I mean real labour not that labour of love, hobby or personal interest kind. The type that forces you to be reliant on it for your…
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