what's new with me

Publications

Blood Memory, my third full-length collection of poetry, is available online from chapters.ca, amazon.com, and The League of Canadian Poets webstore (which also contains my comments about writing the book and a review). Of course, feel free contact me if you'd like to buy a copy directly from me. Check here if you'd like more information and links to sample poems.

• A CD of me reading my poems, She Says: Poems Selected and New, will appear in 2007 from The Alsop Review Press.
• My poem, "On Skye", will appear in Wompology (Granada Hill, CA: Red Hen Press, forthcoming 2007).

• My poem, "Egg and Sky Skye and Eigg" just appeared in The Malahat Review
• My poem, "Wish-Stone at Dunnottar", just appeared online in Strange Horizons.
• My poems, "The Tattoos I Don't Have" and "Westness Walk" appeared in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 20 (2007).
• My poem, "Dsonoqua Daughters" appeared in The League of Canadian Poets Feminist Caucus Anthology, Arms Like Ladders: The Eloquent She. Poems from The Feminist Caucus.

Grants

• I received a Canada Council Grant for Professional Writers (poetry) for 2007–2008.

Upcoming Travel

• Saratoga Springs, New York, for World Fantasy Convention in November

Past Travel

• Victoria, BC in October for The Malahat Review's celebration of its 40th Anniversary and of Robin Skelton, its co-founder.

2006 in Review

• Publications
• My poems, "Graves and Churchyards Cairns and Cairns" and "The Walk She Takes", appeared in the anthology The Long Journey: Pacific Northwest Poets (Oregon: University of Oregon Press).
• My poem, "Lockerbie", appeared in Full Unit Hookup 8.
• My poem, "Giant's Graves Forest Trail¹ Painted by Numbers" appeared in The Malahat Review 155.
• Travel
• Austin, Texas for World Fantasy Convention in November
• Lamont, Alberta to visit my (visiting) mother and sister in May
• Readings
• May 10th at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle

2005 in Review

• Publications
• My poem, "On Skye" appeared in And No One Knows The Blood We Share, an anthology of poems from the Feminist Caucus of The League of Canadian Poets
• My poem, "Hunting The Lady Well" appeared in Canadian Literature 186.
• My poem, "1773" appeared in LitRag 19 (July 2005).
• My poem, "The Bones of the Tale" went online at Strange Horizons
• My poem, "In Blood On Stone In Bone" went online at Strange Horizons.
• My poem, "The Mainland Tour: Orkney" appeared in Thin Air issue 0013.
• Travel
• Madison, Wisconsin for World Fantasy Convention in November
• North Carolina (for a family visit) in May
• Vancouver for AWP in April

2004 in Review

• Publications
• My poems "Graves and Churchyards Cairns and Cairns," "The Walk She Takes," and "Wearing Nothing But The Midnight Sun" appeared in Anthology One (Delaware: The Alsop Review Press, 2004)
• Travel
• Istanbul and the Antalya area of Turkey in April
• Arizona for World Fantasy Convention in October

2003 in Review

• Publications
• "Westward Ever Dreaming" appeared in the Autumn 2003 issue of Canadian Literature
• Readings
• March 27th at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta
• April 30th at the Art Bar Reading Series in Toronto, Ontario
• Travel
• Calgary, Alberta
• Toronto, Ontario
• Turkey and Bulgaria
• Scotland
• Washington, DC at the end of October for World Fantasy Convention and afterwards to Baltimore to visit Jim's relatives.

2002 in Review

• Honours
  • "Wearing Nothing But The Midnight Sun" won Arc magazine's Confederation Poets Prize

• Publications
  • A poem, "Carnasserie Castle" appeared in the Spring 2002 issue of Grain

• Readings
  • April 7th as part of the Sundays at the James Bay Inn series in Victoria, BC
  • May 29 at the Queen Anne Branch of the Seattle Public Library
  • June 20 at Open Books on 45th in Seattle to launch Jim's new book, Human Cartography
  • October 17 at the Frye Art Gallery in Seattle

• Travel
  • I attended the World Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis in November

2001 in Review

• Publications
  • A poem, "Wearing Nothing But The Midnight Sun" was a finalist in Arc magazine's Poem of the Year Contest, and appeared as an "Editor's Choice" in its Winter 2001 issue

• Readings
  • January 8 was the book launch for Blood Memory at Elliott Bay Bookstore.
  • April 19 I read as part of the Pontoon Reading Series at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle
  • June 9 I read as part of EctoFest West in Santa Cruz, CA
  • September 13 I read with Jim and two other people as part of the It's About Time Series at the University Branch of the Seattle Public Library
  • October 30 was the Canadian Launch for Blood Memory at the National Library of Canada in Ottawa
  • November 5-9, Ontario Reading Tour with John Barton
    • Nov. 5, Poetica Reading Series, Toronto
    • Nov. 6, Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston
    • Nov. 7, Trent University Writers Reading Series, Peterborough
    • Nov. 8, Hamilton Public Library, Hamilton
    • Nov. 9, University of Windsor, Windsor

• Grants
  • I received a King County Arts Commission Special Projects Program Grant (poetry)
• Travel
  • I attended the World Fantasy Convention in Montreal in November
  • Did the above reading tour with John Barton in November

2000 in review

• Publications
  • Blood Memory, my new poetry collection, published!
  • A poem, "Meditation at La Push" appeared in Arc's Autumn 2000 issue
  • A poem, "The Grey Cairns of Camster" appeared in LitRag 11
  • A poem appeared in the fall 2000 issue of The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
  • A poem appeared in the anthology Pontoon 4 from Floating Bridge Press
  • A poem, "Sea Glass From Execution Rock" appeared in the anthology, New Life in Dark Seas: Brick Books 24
  • Two poems appeared in LitRag 8 in February
  • The Alsop Review added six poems to my section there
  • Two poems appeared in TickleAce's Special Confederation 50 Issue
  • An short essay, "Incense: Robin Skelton's 'Burning Sticks, Mallorca" appeared in Arc's Summer 2000 issue
  • An essay, a reprint of "Poetry as DNA", appeared in the anthology Imprints and Casualties from Broken Jaw Press (Fredericton, New Brunswick)

• Readings
  • On January 20th Jim and I read together at the Frye Art Museum.
  • On February 5th I read at the launch for the new issue of LitRag
  • On February 12th I read at the Seattle Neighborhood Arts Celebration

1999 in review

• Publications
  • Blood Memory accepted for publication!
  • My short story "Ars Poetica" appeared in issue 7 The final issue) of Odysse
  • My poem, "Beneath the Sign Marked Maidens >9" was a finalist in Arc magazine's Poem of the Year Contest, and appeared as an "Editor's Choice" in its Autumn 1999 issue
  • My poem "Alchemical Daughter" appeared in the summer 1999 issue of Contemporary Verse 2
  • Two poems appeared in the April issue of Star*Line

• Readings
  • Redmond Association of the Spoken Word (RASP) (February 6)
  • It's About Time (February 11)
  • The (W)rites of Spring League of Canadian Poets reading in Vancouver, B.C. (April 15)

• Travel
  • Attended World Fantasy Con in Providence, Rhode Island in November
  • Spent a week in August in North Carolina for Jim's father's 80th birthday
  • Spent June 30 through July 15 having an incredible time being tourists in Turkey

1998 in review

• Publications
  • The Alsop Review put a selection of my poems on-line: "On Skye," "Ravenous," "Tuppence in Pocket", "Story 1," "Sleeping With Lambs," "Sheela-na-Gig"
  • Three poems appeared in the on-line Lynx: Poetry from Bath (still available in its archive section): "Ways To Transcend The Spiritual," "The Cairn By The Road," "Dwarfie Stane, Isle of Hoy"
  • Three poems published in PoetsWest in conjunction with the September reading
  • My poem, "Lucidity" was a finalist in Arc magazine's Poem of the Year Contest, and appeared as an "Editor's Choice" in its Autumn 1998 issue
  • "Delicate as the Shapes of Spirits" was published in Canadian Literature's Winter 1998 issue
  • My poem "The Tree in the World", which appeared in Arc 31 in 1993 was reprinted in the anthology We All Begin in a Little Magazine: Arc and the Promise of Canada's Poets, 1978 to 1998 (Carleton University Press/Arc, 1998)
  • My memorial of Robin Skelton was online at The Salmon Bay Review

• Readings
  • Seattle Art Museum After Hours Series (January 15)
  • Wit's End Tea Shop (April 19)
  • PoetSpeak Reading Series (September 6)
  • Bellevue Art Museum After Hours (September 22)

• Travel
  • Victoria, B.C. (June, The League of Canadian Poets Annual General Meeting)
  • Monterey, CA (October, World Fantasy Convention)
  • Vancouver, B.C. (a couple of times to go to hear Veda Hille, also Olympia WA to hear her once. Heh.)

1997 in review

• Publications
  • My poem, "Ravenous" was a finalist in Arc magazine's Poem of the Year Contest, and appeared as an "Editor's Choice" in its Autumn 1997 issue
  • My first published piece of fiction, "Furious" appeared in ODYSSEY issue number 1

• Readings
  • Bumbershoot Arts Festival (September)
  • Open Books (October)
  • Green Lake Public Library (April)

• Grants
  • Canada Council Project Grant (poetry)
  • Seattle Arts Commission (poetry)

• Travel
  • Scotland to do research for writing projects (June, thanks to the Canada Council)
  • Boston (July, for ReaderCon)
  • Devon, England (October, Milford Writers Workshop)
  • London (October, World Fantasy Convention)