Foraging for Stories is out in Folklife Magazine - May 2022

Ice melt; sea level rise; catastrophic weather; flooding; drought; fire; infestation; species extinction and adaptation; water shortage and contamination; intensified social inequity, migration and cultural collapse. These are but some of the changes that are not only predicted for climate changing futures, but already part of our lives in Canada. Although these transformations are global and dramatic, they are also experienced locally and particularly by people who are struggling to understand the impacts of climate change on their daily lives.

The idea for Regrets was generated during a Storied Imaginarium workshop and is based on the fairy tale East of the Sun, West of the Moon.

Novels are five-tier wedding cakes but Drabbles are the cookies of your writing life.

The idea for Hindsight was generated during a Storied Imaginarium workshop and is based on the fairy tale Rapunzel.

The Frog Prince’s Reluctant Bride, published in DSF, came out of Carina Bissett’s 2021 Storied Imaginarium workshop. Read an interview about the process.

Check out my latest Fairy Tale retelling, The Frog Prince’s Reluctant Bride, at Daily Science Fiction. It’s the story of what happens after the frog turns into a prince.

Creative Non-fiction in a bite sized format.

In March of 2018, Trudeau scholar, Cate Sandilands, brought together a collection of authors, poets, activists and scientists, both settler and indigenous for an intensive, place-based workshop to start a conversation about the kinds of stories we need to tell about climate change right now.