I just received confirmation that my poem “The Broken Beauty of Ice” will appear in Solicitations: Poetry in Quebec, edited by Kathleen Hulley & Luc Murray Mercier, published by the Literary & Historical Society of Quebec. The collection will be released in April 2025.
Category: News
Coming in December! New submission to “Island Writer”
“Quadra Island” will be published in the Winter issue of Island Writer Magazine (Volume 24, Issue 2). This piece of creative non-fiction is a condensed version of a chapter in my forth-coming book, Island-Wise, expected in mid-2025.
Ominous makes Greater Victoria Public Library list
It was very exciting to be part of the celebration of Emerging Local Authors at the main branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library on May 11, 2024.
Ominous is Really Ominous – 100 Sold!
Ominous – An African Journey hit the one hundred copies sold mark in April. A book launch, Russell Books, book fairs, on-line sales and word-of-mouth all played roles. Thank you, readers, for your support.
Ominous is Now in Print!
Ominous, An African Journey is now in print!
It is an exciting day; I just picked up three boxes of my first book and it looks great, if I do say so myself. Better yet, the account of three years living in Africa is exciting and engaging. I think readers will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
I’ll up-date “So Noted” when Ominous is available in local book stores. If you can’t “buy locally” in Victoria, you can order the book on Amazon.ca or Amazon.com
Women Wrote Canada’s Earliest Hospital History
Research that began in 2017 finally became a published article in Society Pages, the quarterly publication of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec (spring issue 2023).
Many thanks to “Lit & His” Librarian and quarterly editor Kathleen Hulley for putting the final polish on my article: “Canada’s Women Writers Got It Right: The Augustine Hospitallers as Historians”.
The registers of the Hôtel Dieu de Québec, date back to the 1690s. The women who Augustine nurses and administrators kept hospital records that add to the fabric of Canadian history.
Le Monastère des Augustines, 32 rue Charlevoix, Quebec City. photo by Britta Gundersen-Bryden, 2017.
Wrath
Zoe Dickinson, prize-winning poet, was the presenter at last night’s Victoria Writers; Society meeting. afterwards, other local poets were invited to read a piece of their own poetry. I chose “Wrath,” a rather dark piece about the intersections between racism, violence and climate change.
Bats and Bigger
Victoria Writers’ Society hosted an open mic session at their January meeting last night. I read “Bats and Bigger”, a chapter from my forthcoming memoir, Ominous, An African Journey.
Tiny Brains
I was delighted to be able to read my poem, “Tiny Brains” at the Victoria Writers’ Society meeting last night. The poem was published in the latest issue of Island Writer and touches on the emerging power of AI.
Nightingale
Nightingale (Goldfinch Press 2022) has just been released. This memoir by James Bay writer, Mary Hodges, is a delight. Never pretentious, often funny and written in crisp prose, this book is a treat to read.