Writing and Awards

Novels

Shepherd's Call (2022)

  • Gold - Young Adult Fiction - General - 2022 Moonbeam Winner

Wolfe in Shepherd's Clothing (2018)

  • Finalist - Young Adult Book - 2019 High Plains Book Awards
  • Finalist - Young Adult  - 2019 Sask Book Awards
  • Finalist - Young New Adult - 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards

Shepherd's Watch (2017)

  • Finalist - Second Novel - 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
  • Silver - Young Adult Fiction - Horror/Mystery - 2017 Moonbeam Winner

Along Comes a Wolfe (2016)

  • Winner - First Book Award - 2017 Sask Book Awards
  • Gold - Best First Book - Chapter Book - 2017 Moonbeam Winner
  • Finalist - 2017 Young Adult - High Plains Book Awards

Short Fiction

But We Do It Anyway

Originally published in 2012 as the Briarpatch Creative Writing Contest Hometown Winner, I recently gave it a polish and republished it.

Mammoth

2014, previously published in Swift, Flowing.

I also share a new story each week.

Screenplays

Darkness

2014, Feature Script, In Development

Black Bear

2013, Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Project

The Drowned

2010, Quarter-Finalist in the Blue Cat Screenplay Competition, 2010

The Wakeless

2009, Previously Optioned

Film Reviews

Allah Tantou: God's Will Be Done

David Achkar, 1991, Directory of World Cinema: Africa, 2015

Aristotle's Plot

Jean-Pierre Bekolo, 1996, Directory of World Cinema: Africa, 2015

A Time There Was: Stories From the Last Days of Kenya Colony

Karen Feiertag and Donald McWilliams, 2009, Directory of World Cinema: Africa, 2015

The Journey of Cape Verde

Guenny K. Pires, 2004, Directory of World Cinema: Africa, 2015

Zahra’s Mother Tongue

Fatimi Sissani, 2011, Directory of World Cinema: Africa, 2015

Other Writing

January 20, 2020 – Five Library Resources to Help Write Your Feature Film, Regina Public Library

January 29, 2020 - Three Great Writing Books to Consider Character, Regina Public Library

September 17, 2019 — Four Lessons I Learned Becoming a Writer, Regina Public Library