The Berton House writers’ retreat run by the Writers’ Trust sometimes has gaps in between the three-month writer retreats. When this happens, the trust asks Yukon writers to fill in. Lucky me, I get to spend two-and-a-half weeks at Berton House late-September and into October 2019.
The manuscript for my novel Giantess was longlisted for the 2019 Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction. It’s exciting to be included on the list. Update: Giantess didn’t make the shortlist, but check out who did: https://www.guernicaeditions.com/
Pleased as punch to announce that Beyond Mile Zero, the Vanishing Alaska Highway Lodge Community (Lost Moose / Harbour Publishing) won a 2018 silver IPPY Award in the Travel Essay category.
An IPPY is ‘The world’s leading book award recognizing quality, independently published books.’
There’s a medal, an award ceremony in New York, you know the unusually fun stuff.
Mark and I are honoured to be selected as the recipients of the Yukon Historical Museums Associations’ Innovation, Education and Community Engagement Award for 2017. I accepted the award for us at the Yukon Heritage Awards Ceremony on Monday, February 19, 2018, at the Yukon Archives in Whitehorse. Unfortunately, Mark was travelling and unable to join me at the ceremony. It was a wonderful evening that recognized the work of some exceptional Yukoners dedicated to preserving culture and heritage.
2017 Yukon Heritage Awards presented at the Yukon Archives on February 19, 2018, in Whitehorse, Yukon. Photo by Alistair Maitland Photography
It was fun to write about my writing day for writer, publisher and critic Rob McLellan’s new blog series “My Writing Day”. Have a read here. There’s a special-guest appearance from this guy (aka dog muse).
Date: 7 p.m. Monday, June 19, 2017, at Baked Cafe, Main Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Details: I’ll be reading poetry in support of visiting poet Chrys Salt
Date: 12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Saturday, July 8, 2017, at Atlin Lit Up literary festival (part of the Atlin Arts and Music Festival) Details: “Level Up With Collabortaion” a presentation with photographer Mark Kelly