community & events

In addition to freelance writing and editing, I get involved in a variety of community-based literary goings-on.

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• member of the Federation of BC Writers

• author interviewer and event leader of Re-Story Forest Walk at the Victoria Festival of Authors, October 19 & 20, 2024.

• former board member and jury wrangler for the Victoria Book Prize Society, Feb 2023-Feb 2025.

• panelist for Writers on Mayne: A Literary Panel Discussion, Aug 11, 2024. 

• panel moderator for Shining a Light: Writer as Witness and Zoom In, Zoom Out: Focus on Fiction at The Malahat Review's WordsThaw literary symposium, Feb 22, 2014 & March 23, 2013.

• guest host on "U in the Ring" with Colin Dower (CFUV), interviewing John Gould, Sara Cassidy, and Rhona McAdam, March 12, 2013.
  Have a listen 

• panelist for The Malahat Review's workshop “Whither – or Wither – the Book Review?” A Panel Discussion, November 20, 2010.​

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​Oh, and in my non-wordwork time, I play percussion in the early music performance group Banquo Folk Ensemble