For the fourth year in a row, I had the pleasure of writing a handful of profiles for Avenue's annual Top 40 Under 40 issue. Each year, the Edmonton magazine honours a wide range of young professionals excelling in all kinds of different fields. I had the pleasure of profiling: - Ray Yue - Business owner - Zoreh Saher - Policy analyst - Mohamed El Daly - Director of science outreach organization - Sheena Wilson - Professor of Literature, Film, and Cultural Studies - Andrea Pe

On a whim, I submitted a board book I'd written during an MFA course last year (Writing for children, with Maggie deVries) to the Surrey International Writers Conference annual writing contest. I was delighted to find out in late October that I'd received an honourable mention in the Writing for Young People category for my rhyming tale, "Busy Busy Baby." Apparently, this is the first time a board book (ie. A short picture book written for the baby and toddler crowd) has rece