2025 Awards Eligibility

I’m fortunate to have a number of short stories and poems published in 2025. These are eligible for the Nebula, Hugo, Locus, Ignyte, and Aurora awards, among others, and I’d be grateful if you gave them a read! My favourite…

2024 Awards Eligibility

Hello friends, I am a new speculative writer and poet from Toronto, and I’m excited to share my work with the world for the first time this year. Although I have a number of stories and poems published in 2024,…

One Year In – Expectations vs. Reality

If there’s any theme to my first year of trying to become a writer, it’s that reality wildly deviated from my expectations. And that’s a good thing. When I started writing, I thought I would hole up by myself, maybe…

2023 Retrospective

Almost six months into my writing journey, I feel I’ve come a long way, but I have so much further to go, and I’m itching to get there. Starting from essentially zero aptitude, I worked hard in 2023 to improve…

A New Journey

In mid 2023, I found myself on the unlikeliest journey of my life—creative writing. Backstory To understand why creative writing was such a leap for me, we begin with my childhood. For as long as I can remember, I excelled…