Video: My Reading at the Brockton Writers Series

So I completely dropped the ball and failed to acknowledge and share around this video of my reading at the Brockton Writers Series back in September. Oops! Anyway, here it is! It was a lovely night and now you can enjoy a part of it. Please don't forget to like, subscribe, comment, vote, get a Pap smear, thank your mom for all she's done for you, take your blood pressure, support local journalism, and pet a cat. 

I'm back guest-columning for Rebecca's newsletter

 Okay, I'm back guest-columning for Rebecca's newsletter, this time to ask the question: am I becoming a baseball fan? (And to sing the praises of our pal Jacob McArthur Mooney's new novel.) 

Here's an excerpt of what I have to say:

"And by the time the postseason started, I shocked myself by tuning in. Who was I now? Was I becoming a baseball fan? I can easily say that what won me over was the Jays’ remarkable sportsmanship, their examples of positive masculinity and the fun the team seemed to be having, even when it looked like their World Series dreams were being dashed. I became just as obsessed with the absolute joy in Ernie Clement’s smile as I was with the 'Springer Dinger.'"

M. 

Grain magazine No. 200 is here!

And I have a new short story, called "Exactly Nine Years," included in it! I'm so excited to see this piece, from my RECENTLY COMPLETED new short story collection manuscript, out in the world. I'm chuffed to see this piece in Grain's 200th issue (as I was to see my story "Fall Back" in The Fiddlehead #300 last summer), and this also marks my second time in Grain. I had poem appear in an issue back in 2017.

This new issue of Grain contains a number of familiar names to me, including Lorna Crozier, Lisa Bird-Wilson, and Aaron Schneider. It also has a super-cool cover that features thumbnails of all 200 previous covers of the magazine.

I can't wait to tuck in to see what's on offer, and I hope you will do the same. Grain is available wherever better Canadian magazines are sold.

M.