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Writing
Like most writers, I've put pencil to paper since I was a child: short stories, diaries, school essays, journals, a PhD dissertation, academic papers, sociological studies, and now, creative writing. A long time coming, but welcoming. A place I need to be.
Achievements
“Arrival,” Winner of the Dreamers Place and Home Contest, 2024; Honorable Mention – Globe Soup Short Memoir Contest, 2022; Shortlisted – Surrey International Writers’ Conference Contest, 2020; Shortlisted – Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Contest, 2019
“Bravado,” Nominated for a National Magazine Award by the journal, Prairie Fire, 2023; Shortlisted – Surrey International Writers’ Conference Contest, 2019
“Descent into Darkness,” an adapted chapter from a current memoir-in-progress, Contest Winner of the Creative Nonfiction Collective Award, 2018
“To Breathe Again,” recognized as a Notable Essay by Memoir Magazine’s #MeToo contest, 2018
Publications
"Arrival," forthcoming in Dreamers Creative Writing, Vol. 17, Spring/Summer 2024
“Bravado,” in Prairie Fire, Vol. 44, Winter 2021-22
“Descent into Darkness,” in carte blanche, Vol. 33, 2018
Discourse, Participation and Empowerment: A Study of Child Health at the Community Level in War-Torn Liberia, Ottawa: Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Carleton University Press, 2003
“Land Rights and Gender Relations in Areas of Rural Africa: A Question of Power and Discourse," in Social and Legal Studies, Spring/March volume, 1995
“AIDS and the Human Rights of an Isolated Generation,” in The Human Rights Tribune, September 1994
The Future for Women in Development: Voices from the South (editor), Ottawa: North South Institute, 1991
Support
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Access Copyright Foundation, Professional Development Grant, 2023
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Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development Grant, 2022-2023
Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Grant, 2022-2023
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Full scholarship, Emerging Writers’ Intensive, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, 2018