- 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)
Other Writing
Looking for information, reviews, and interviews about my novel The Quiet is Loud? Click here!
General interviews with me about writing, etc can be found here.
Short Stories & Poems
Articles
- 2023-Present – Columnist at Open Book
- 2024 – Character Development Lessons From Video Games at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) Blog
- 2023 – We Need More Older Protagonists in Speculative Fiction – and Beyond at All Lit Up
- 2022 – Things I Didn’t Know About Publishing a First Book Until I Published My First Book at Invisible Publishing
- 2021 – June Writer-in-Residence at Open Book
- 2021 – “9 books for getting into speculative fiction” at Rakuten Kobo
- 2021 – “Speculative Fiction: Vast and Thrilling” at 49th Shelf
Awards & Grants
- 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
Other Projects
- 2016 – Completed NaNoWriMo with the novel The Quiet is Loud.
- 2015-2017 – 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
Education and Other Activities
- 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 (which went on to form the foundation of my fantasy novel Seeker of the Lost Song). It made my mother very proud:
