How fun to be on my very first podcast! Thanks to @nathan__whitlock@thewalrus for the invitation to speak about “what comes next” after a first book … thru the swamps of NYT trend pieces, process anxieties, sprinting vs other kinds of writing, and playground-side notebooks. Listen to the end to hear my tips on how best to produce “hundreds of thousands of words” of totally unusable material 😌
Link in bio or wherever podcasts are found.
@k2literary@sarabandebooks
May is short story month for anyone who celebrates short sprints, implausible conjectures, exquisite assemblages, and choirs of voices. In Vancouver, May is also the month of wilted cherry blossom blooms, which I take to mean occasion to be reborn as a green leaf. I would love to see you at one of these free Vancouver events!
Tues 19 May @ 6:30pm I’ll be @vancouverpubliclibrary Central Branch with @alixohlin@andrea_routley@ssb1983 and Jen Currin talking about the wily short story as possibility and form.
Fri 22 May @ 6:30pm @heliconbooks I’m honoured to join @veroniquedarwin_ in conversation to launch her debut collection of stories, Mom Camp, “a frothy, philosophical take on modern female archetypes” (blurb) that is “part fantasy dollhouse, part summer camp romp, part expansive blackbox theatre experiment” (my words)!
Link in bio to register. Hope to see you there 🩷
“Strange and SMART and funny and true…”10-year-old me and now-year-old book. Past and future bobs forever molded by the curvature of pillows………and dreams?????
Photo by my straight A friend @roala131 🩷
#computertime
2025 was the year I got to welcome a new baby and a book, events which do not always collide in this universe, but which in mine, did. Hard to put into words just how special it is to me to have had this time. Like a little bit of emo cloud has lifted and now I am really here, on Earth, making and creating alongside the rest of you. I’m grateful to the people who have cared for me and my family during this season of change, everyone who has cared for and read my book enough to sigh/smile/ponder/pass it on. Everyone who has ever wondered about the longest way to eat a melon. 2025 was the year I learned how to be a writer in the world. 2026 is my year to relearn how to write, now with two kids. Maybe it will be impossible? Who knows! Love to all my friends who wish against the impossible!
Here are a bunch of shots taken by our preschooler. The first video was a bit staged; all the others mysteriously appeared on my phone.
A couple more trailing thoughts before we close out 2025: this conversation on experimentation, failure, and writing against capitalism. On difficulty hidden in simple forms. Maybe there’s something here to keep you (me) writing. Into 2026 and beyond.
Thank you to the @ex_puritan and @casper.orr for facilitating this one.
Link in bio to read the full interview.
@sarabandebooks@k2literary
Find The Longest Way to Eat a Melon at a library near you, in print or ebook format 🔍 🐾
(+ if it’s not yet available at your local community or university library, please request it!)
@vancouverpubliclibrary@sarabandebooks
The Giller Prize boycott continues — no arms in the arts!
Join us next Monday Nov 17, 7pm @irondogbooks in Vancouver for an evening of readings and solidarity.
Gratitude to all the organizers and signatories 🍓🍓🍓
One last book event this fall before I promise to stop spamming you with my personal ads and retreat into babyland bliss/chaos/majestic temperate rainforest (will be good for us both) ~
Please join me in Toronto this weekend where I’ll be in conversation with the incredible Bo-Young Kim on “time and memory” for the Toronto International Festival of Authors @festofauthors ! I’ve been so enjoying reading Kim’s newly translated and very funny collected novella/stories and am looking forward to discussing some shared thematics across our books.
Saturday, Nov 1, 1:30pm at Emmanuel College (Room 319), Victoria University at the University of Toronto
Link in bio for tickets ❤️
This evening @vancouverwritersfest ~ I’m looking forward to being in conversation with some local writers I so admire on the beautiful topic of SHORT STORIES ~ what are they, what can they do??? ~ and thinking thru the question of “here” in time and space… This will be my last book event in Vancouver this fall, please join us!
Sat Oct 25, 5pm
Revue Stage, Granville Island
Book signings will follow
Link in bio for tickets
