Many literary and arts events scheduled for 2020 have been cancelled or postponed. In the meanwhile, I'm busy writing and painting. Looking forward to getting back to public circulation when it's safe to do so.

Stay healthy, everyone! 

GOOD NEWS!  
​

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'
This poem will be 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'
​

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

---

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

​

 

ART ​Portfolio

'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

Get In Touch.

​

contact me