Here is my writing resume, which I hope will knock the socks off of future publishers and agents:
Recent Grants & Awards
Arts Funding to Communities ($1,500 grant) to support the planning & drafting of mystery novel #3, Columbia Basin Trust via the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance.
2019 Top Five Finalist, Unhanged Arthur Ellis Award for best unpublished first crime novel, Crime Writers of Canada.
Memberships
Sisters in Crime (2017-present).
Sisters in Crime – Guppy Chapter (2017-present).
Federation of BC Writers (2018-2019, 2023-2024)
Sisters in Crime – Canada West Chapter (2021-present).
Education
Digital Marketing Bootcamp (8 weeks), Alacrity Canada (January-March 2021).
Numerous marketing & writing courses (ongoing).
1998-2003: BA (creative writing & English literature, double major with distinction), University of Victoria, British Columbia.
Volunteer Service
Secretary, District Parent Advisory Council (January 2023-present).
Trustee, Invermere Public Library board (January 2023-present).
Marketing Lead, annual Polar Plunge fundraiser for the RAD Society (2021, 2022, 2023).
Critiquer, Fantasy Agent Project, Sisters in Crime (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022).
Publications
Multiple creative non-fiction stories, Medium.com
Uprisings: A Hands-On Guide to the Community Grain Revolution, co-authored with Sarah Simpson, New Society Publishers (non-fiction book, 2013)
“Up on the Farm” column series, The Winnipeg Review (creative non-fiction, 2012)
“Open Pollinated,” The Winnipeg Review (prose poem, July 4, 2011)
“(Title Goes Here),” The New Quarterly (essay / fiction, summer 2010)
“Like the Centrefold in Maxim Magazine,” Room of One’s Own (poetry, Volume 27:3)
“The Fisherman is Fucked,” The Dalhousie Review (poetry, summer 2004)
“A Real Boy,” The Claremont Review (poetry, fall 1997)
Stage play productions
2007: Delores’s Love Story: Bitter Scripts, Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival.
2004: The Terrible Preservation of Valentine Pilate, Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival (winner of the 1st annual Petri Dish Award for the best new script).
Professional writing & editing
2019-2020: Proofreader for The Columbia Valley Pioneer (community newspaper).
2012: Customer Service Representative for Tiny Speck/Glitch.
2011-2012: Communications Officer for the Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia.
2009-2010: Co-Editor for Urban Garden Magazine.
2007-2009: Communications Officer for Island Savings Credit Union.
2004-2007: Public Affairs Officer for the British Columbia Public Affairs Bureau (provincial government communications).
Student Grants, Scholarships & Awards
1st annual Petri Dish Award for the best new script, Intrepid Theatre Company (2004).
BC Arts Council Senior Fiction Award (2003).
BC Arts Council Senior Fiction Award (2002).
Hazel Partridge Smith Memorial Scholarship (2001, 2002).
BC Festival of the Arts, fiction (1999).