My writing

My writing has appeared at the following places:

River Mouth Review:
Poem: "On finding a stone to put in your father's casket" - May 2023

Stone Circle Review:
Poem: "Climate" - May 2023

Moist Poetry Journal:
Poem: "You said we sat by water" – December 2022

Psaltery & Lyre:
Poem: "Portrait of My Grandmother, Not Knitting" – November 2022

Dust Poetry:
Poem: "Red Roads" – June 2022
Poem: "These days" – January 2020

Reckon Review:
Short story: "End of October" – October 2021

Juniper Poetry:
Poem: "Leaving home for the last time" – Fall 2020
Poem: "Departures" – Summer 2019

Barren Magazine:
Poem: "Coyotes" – September 2018

Relief  Journal:
Poem: "Lakeside, with Jonathan" – Spring 2018 issue (print)

Fathom Mag:
Poem: "interceding" – December 2019
Essay: "When the Time to Weep is the Time to Laugh" – February 2019
Flash fiction: "Glimpse" – December 2018 (I was one of the winners of Fathom's Tweet-sized stories (280 characters or fewer) contest)
Poem: "Seen" – August 2018 (I was one of the winners of Fathom's 40-word poem contest)

Voidspace Interactive Arts:
Poem: "Mary" – December 2021 (I wrote this in response to the journal's challenge to write a poem using only the letters in "Merry Christmas")

The Poetry Blackboard (poetry site curated by Kingston Poet Laureate):
"Mass for a fallen leaf"
"Along King Street" * 
"Gazing upward at night, with Chesterton"

*"Along King Street" was also selected to be one of the featured poems in Kingston's Vibrant Spaces project in August 2019; it has been printed on a railing on the Kingston waterfront.

Kingstonist News:
"Prison Farms in a Time of Global Crisis: Thinking Big, Starting Small" – op-ed for Kingstonist Community Editorial Board, May 2020

Ruminate:
Reader's Note in Issue 40, Fall 2016 (print)

Bangor Literary Journal:
Poem: "Daylight Saving" in Spring's Bride collection, Easter 2018

The Perennial Gen:
"The Solidarity of Intergenerational Friendships"
"The Never-Empty Nest"
"My Teenage Fashion Fail"
"Not Just a Scone"

Ellen Stumbo: Hope and Encouragement for the Special Needs Parent: 
"Do it for Jesus: except Jesus doesn't scream when told to get ready for supper"

Bronwyn Lea: 
"Where is Your Peace?"

The Babylon Bee (when it was kind of funny and not racist, misogynist garbage): 
"Woman Admits She Envies Those Who Don't Have It All Together" 

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Publications that are no longer available online:

ALTARWORK:
Poem: "duplication on chromosome 16" (no link: site archived)

Tim Fall: Just One Train Wreck After Another (no links, site archived):
  "What would Jesus do? Asking the wrong question"
"The Right Teacher at the Right Time" 
  "Whose Fault?" 
"Pageboys and Princes"

Classical Quest - two poetry-photography collaboration posts with Adriana (no links, site archived):
"Ascending"
"The Choice"
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My short story "Poor Sad Soul" won the Christian Courier short-story prize in 2010 (published - no link).

 My short story "End of October" was a finalist (top 8) for Ruminate's Van Dyke Short Story Prize in 2016 (not published).