Other Writing

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2020 – “The Dreamers” | Short story, The Quarantine Review #5
2020 – “When You Don’t See Me” and “Words for a Heart” | Poems, The Quarantine Review #1
2014 – “An Island” | Prose poem, Sundog Lit, The Kissing Booth
2012 – “Breathing Underwater” | Short story, WhiskeyPaper
2011 – “Sorry Every Day” | Short story, Storychord #22
2006 – “& I kind of” and “winter wheat” | Poems, The Fiddlehead #229 (as Samantha Marcelo)
2004 – “Our Game” | Short story, Kiss Machine #8 (as Samantha Marcelo)
2001 – Short story, Broken Pencil (as Samantha Marcelo)

2023 – I am a very grateful recipient of two Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grants for Writers for Seeker of the Lost Song, recommended by ECW Press and Diaspora Dialogues
2022 – Shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for The Quiet is Loud

2016 – Completed NaNoWriMo with the novel The Quiet is Loud.
2015-onwards – The Small Histories | Historical articles and light research
2012-2014 – Lumisilla mailla | Collaborative online writing & photography project
2010 – Completed NaNoWriMo with the novel Practice.
2008 – WestWord Magazine: My Do-It-Yourself Writer’s Retreat (PDF)
2003 – Milo #3: Habitat: Calgary
2003 – RicePaper: The Other Side of Transracial Adoption
2003 – inside mississauga: Suburban Uniformity
2001-2004 – Pinpoints | Zine – 3 issues
2001-2003 – Telectric | Zine – 4 issues
2001 – Blinking Is Just Blinking | Very small print run handmade book
2001 – Laundry | Very small print run handmade book
2000 – vandoo | Humourous article on writing and procrastination for the student newspaper of York University

2012 – Humber School for Writers | Worked on a collection of short stories in the 30-week Humber School for Writers Correspondence program, mentored by Donna Morrissey
2006 – 2010 – Guild member, Writers Guild of Alberta
2006 – The Alexandra Reader 25th Anniversary Edition | Editorial committee
2004 – 2006 – Member and Secretary of Board of Directors, Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society

Oh, and in 2012, a tweet of mine ended up in Reader’s Digest. It was a lot of fun and made my mother very proud: