I’m delighted to announce that my story, “Downsizing” (The New Quarterly, 2020), has been chosen to appear in Best Canadian Stories 2021 (Editor: Diane Schoemperlen). As well, “Downsizing”has been chosen as the winner of the Metcalf-Rooke Award 2021. Thanks to Diane Schoemperlen for choosing “Downsizing” to appear alongside a bevy of terrific stories, thanks to Dan Wells for his support of the Best Canadian Series (poetry, short stories, essays), thanks to John Metcalf and Leon Rooke for choosing “Downsizing” as the Metcalf-Rooke Award winner, and thanks to Steven Temple, of Steven Temple Books, for his generous financial support of the Metcalf-Rooke Award. (November 08th. 2021)

 
 

Thanks very much to The Ontario Arts Coucil's Recommender Grants for Writers program and the the three publishers that recommended my current work in progress be awarded some cash -- Biblioasis, The New Quarterly and The Porcupine's Quill.Thank you all.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  • “Downsizing” story, Best Canadian Stories 2021 (Editor: Diane Schoemperlen), and winner of the Metcalf-Rooke Award 2021

  • “Downsizing”, story, The New Quarterly (Issue #155, Summer 2020)

  • “Chance”, essay, Canadian Notes and Queries (Issue #107, Spring 2020)

  • “Proposal”, poem, 2019 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest Longlist

  • “The Change”, story, The Prairie Journal (online July, 2019: http://www.prairiejournal.org)

  • “Partings, Welded Together: Dickens’ “Great Expectations”, essay, Canadian Notes and Queries (Issue #101, Winter 2018)

  • "Our Lady of Vesuvius", "Puzzle", "Fudge", "The Shafia Girls", poems, The Windsor Review (Volume 50 #2)

  • "Overtime", short story, The Humber Literary Review (Volume 4 Issue 2 Fall/Winter 2017-18)

  • "Red Shoes", poem, Honourable Mention, The Banister: Niagara Poetry Anthology (Volume 32, Fall 2017)

  • "Peggy's Cove" and "Angela's Black Walnut", poems, The Antigonish Review (Volume 48, #190, Summer 2017)

  • "Flash Flood", poem, Writing Menopause (Anthology) Inanna Publications & Education Inc., Toronto 2017

  • "Diminuendo", essay, Canadian Notes and Queries (Issue #91, November, 2016)

  • "Rejection: A Writer's Companion", essay, The New Quarterly (Issue #139, Summer 2016)

  • "Skin", poem, The Banister -- Niagara Poetry Anthology (Volume 30, 2015)

  • Guest Blog for Gail Anderson Dargatz -- Submissions. Rejections. Acceptance. (May, 2015) http://www.gailanderson-dargatz.ca/cms/index.php/blogs/guest-blogs/35-guest-blogs/226-colette-maitland

  • "Food Court", a short story, published electronically by The Prairie Journal (December, 2014) http://prairiejournal.org/stories.html

  • "Pumpkin Eater", poem, The Saving Banister Anthology (Volume 29, 2014)

  • "A Writer's Plea", poem, Write Magazine (Volume 41, #2, Fall 2013)

  • Open Book Ontario/Writing Dialogue