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 pleas...

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 ho...