The 2021 Muskoka Novel Marathon to support the YMCA Adult Literacy Program is about to begin. This photo is from the 72 hour marathon at the Huntsville Summit Centre. This year it's a virtual event.  Go to www.muskokanovelmarathon.com to learn all about this incredible event, and help sponsor a writer. (me, I hope!)

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​Great  news... my YA novel, 'The Sound of a Rainbow', which won the 2020 Quarantine Edition of the Muskoka Novel Marathon will be published by               Latitude 46 Publishing.

Expected launch date is 2023.

Thanks so much to the Muskoka Novel Marathon organizers and Latitude 46 Publishing. I'm over the rainbow with excitement!

Many thanks to the hard working executive who came up with creative solutions to allow this 19 year traditional event to 'virtually' continue.  I'm excited to participate in this year's Virtual 20th anniversary marathon between July 16 - 19.

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MORE GOOD NEWS!  
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May 2021












My story, 'Moonlight with Tom Thomson' is featured this month on 'UPROAR', a literary magazine published by The Lawrence House Centre for the Arts. The story was inspired by an oil painting I created, 'Moonlight in Muskoka'.
​To read the story, go to  https://lawrencehouse.ca/uproar/

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Poetry, Painters and Prose - Saturday, April 24, 2021  Virtual Event.
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My painting, 'Blue Pools, New Zealand' was chosen as the inspiration for a short story by CBC writer, Samantha Craggs.  My short story, 'Happy Landings', inspired by Mary Nevill's  painting of hot air balloons was one of the featured readings. A wonderful event sponsored by the Niagara Canadian Authors Association. 

April 2021
Congratulations and thank you to Peter Domarchuk, who recently purchased two of my paintings: NOTL Sunset, and Early Winter Snow. Peter is a real estate agent with Royal Lepage in NOTL and is developing a creative program to promote local artists. 

​January 2021
I'm the featured writer in the Gutsy Great Novelist Writers Studio, sponsored by the great writer and instructor,  Joan Dempsey. 

December 2020
'The Christmas Angel '- published in CommuterLit, The Ekphrastic Review, The NOTL Local Paper

October 2020
'Moonlight with Tom Thompson'
Published by Literary Magazine Agnes and True

October 2020
"The Sound of a Rainbow" 
Winner - 2020 YA Muskoka Novel Marathon

October 2019
2nd Place - Stratford Festival/Rotary Short Story Contest
'Twelve Stops to Airport'

September 2019
Winner - Best Young Adult Novel
Muskoka Novel Marathon 2019
'A Chain of Broken Hearts'

July 2019
Finalist - Canadian Author's Association Poetry Contest (Niagara Branch)
'Baby'
Published in The Banister and released October 26th, 2019.

July 2019
Shortlisted (Finalist)
Eden Mills Writers Festival - Literary Contest Non-Fiction
'Just a Cuppa Coffee'

​June 2019
WINNER - 1st Place
South Simcoe Arts Festival Adult Short Story Contest 
'Moonlight with Tom Thomson' was judged by Brian Henry.

WINNER - Phyllis Smallman Award for Great Writing
South Simcoe Arts Festival 2019
May 2019 Shortlisted (Finalist)
2019 NOWW International Writing Contest in the Creative Non-Fiction category. 
​My story, 'Just A Cuppa Coffee' was judged by author M.G. Vassanji. 

September 2018 
Winner - Eden Mills Writers Festival - Fringe Festival
'Fairy Castle in the West'

August 2018
Shortlisted  - CAA Banister Poetry Contest
'Modern Love'
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​ 2018 Eden Mills Writers Festival. 
Winner - Fringe Festival
'Fairy Castle in the West'

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Eden Mills Writers Festival - September  9

                                  I was the Fringe Festival winner with 'Fairy Castle in the West' at the EMWF on September 9, 2018.                                                            
'Fairy Castle' is chapter 8 in       
Caught Between the Walls
Check it out at www.emwf.ca

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'The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.'  Picasso

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