My writing has appeared at the following places:
Painted Pebble Lit Mag (formerly Little Free Lit Mag):
Poems: “Island” and “Simile” - Spring 2025
(links are currently inactive as journal updates its archives)
Stone Circle Review:
Poem: “Big Love” - October 2024
Poem: "Climate" - May 2023
River Mouth Review:
Poem: "On finding a stone to put in your father's casket" - May 2023
Moist Poetry Journal:
Poem: "You said we sat by water" – December 2022
Psaltery & Lyre:
Poem: "Portrait of My Grandmother, Not Knitting" – November 2022
Dust Poetry:
Poem: "Red Roads" – June 2022
Poem: "These days" – January 2020
Reckon Review:
Short story: "End of October" – October 2021
Juniper Poetry:
The editor of this beautiful journal, Lisa Young, died unexpectedly in February 2025, so I am not sure what is happening with the journal; the previous links no longer work. But I had two poems published there:
“Leaving home for the last time” – Fall 2020
"Departures" – Summer 2019:
Barren Magazine:
Poem: "Coyotes" – September 2018
Relief Journal:
Poem: "Lakeside, with Jonathan" – Spring 2018 issue (print - no direct link to poem)
Fathom Mag:
Poem: "interceding" – December 2019
Essay: "When the Time to Weep is the Time to Laugh" – February 2019
Flash fiction: "Glimpse" – December 2018 (I was one of the winners of Fathom's Tweet-sized stories (280 characters or fewer) contest)
Poem: "Seen" – August 2018 (I was one of the winners of Fathom's 40-word poem contest)
Voidspace Interactive Arts:
Poem: "Mary" – December 2021 (I wrote this in response to the journal's challenge to write a poem using only the letters in "Merry Christmas")
The Poetry Blackboard (poetry site curated by Kingston Poet Laureate):
"Mass for a fallen leaf"
"Along King Street" *
"Gazing upward at night, with Chesterton"
* "Along King Street" was also selected to be one of the featured poems in Kingston's Vibrant Spaces project in August 2019; it has been printed on a railing on the Kingston waterfront.
Ruminate:
Reader's Note: “Nowhere Near” - in Issue 40, Fall 2016 (print, no link)
Bangor Literary Journal:
Poem: "Daylight Saving" in Spring's Bride collection, Easter 2018
The Perennial Gen:
"The Solidarity of Intergenerational Friendships"
"The Never-Empty Nest"
"My Teenage Fashion Fail"
"Not Just a Scone"
Ellen Stumbo: Hope and Encouragement for the Special Needs Parent:
"Do it for Jesus: except Jesus doesn't scream when told to get ready for supper"
The Babylon Bee:
"Woman Admits She Envies Those Who Don't Have It All Together"
(I wrote this one back when the BB was kind of cute and relatable and not the racist, misogynist garbage it is now. I see my name’s been removed as author, though, so I am no longer publicly credited for having written this.)
Kingstonist News:
"Prison Farms in a Time of Global Crisis: Thinking Big, Starting Small" – op-ed for Kingstonist Community Editorial Board, May 2020
Publications that are no longer available online because the site is closed or archived:
ALTARWORK:
Poem: "duplication on chromosome 16"
Tim Fall: Just One Train Wreck After Another:
"What would Jesus do? Asking the wrong question"
"The Right Teacher at the Right Time"
”Whose Fault?"
"Pageboys and Princes"
Bronwyn Lea:
“Where is Your Peace?”
Classical Quest - two collaboration posts with Adriana (her photography, my poetry)
"Ascending"
"The Choice"
Contests:
My short story "Poor Sad Soul" won the Christian Courier short story prize in 2010 (published hard copy - no link).
My short story "End of October" was a finalist (top 8) for Ruminate's Van Dyke Short Story Prize in 2016 (listed in issue but not published).