Memoir/Long-form Fiction Editing Portfolio
A selection of my substantive and copy editing credits, plus some books I’ve worked on as an evaluator or mentor.
University of Alberta Press
University of Alberta Press. Shortlisted for the Trade Fiction Book of the year (Alberta Book Publishing awards and the Book Publishers Association of Alberta).
University of Alberta Press. Longlisted for the Giller Prize for Fiction
University of Alberta Press. Winner of the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Book Award.
The Dragon Run by Tony Robinson-Smith
University of Alberta Press. Shortlisted for the WFNB Non-Fiction Prize.
So you’re a little sad, so what? by Alicia Tobin
Arsenal Pulp Press.
The Melting Queen by Bruce Cinnamon
NeWest Press. Shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize - Literary Fiction Category. Shortlisted for Best Speculative Fiction in the Alberta Book Publishing Awards.
The Loneliness of the Time Traveller by Erika Rummel
Inanna Publications. Shortlisted for the Foreword INDIE Awards: Science Fiction category.
Tiny Lights for Travellers by Naomi K. Lewis
University of Alberta Press.
Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction. Winner of the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-fiction. Shortlisted for the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize and The Western Canadian Jewish Book Awards, Pinsky Givon Family Prize for Non-fiction. Winner of the Vine Awards for Jewish Literature (non-fiction).
Lorna Stuber Publishing
From my mother’s back by Njoki Wane
Wolsak&Wynn. Longlisted for the Canada Reads Award.
Still me by Jeffrey John Eyamie
Turnstone Press. Shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.
Patterson House by Jane Cawthorne
Inanna Publications
Mawenzi House
The Friesen Press. Listed on the Kirkus Review’s Best Books of 2023
What You Take With You by Therese Greenwood
University of Alberta Press.
Shortlisted for the Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year | Alberta Book Awards, Book Publishers Association of Alberta
Little Yellow House by CArissa Halton
University of Alberta Press. Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize.
Lorna Stuber Publishing
Slow Reveal by Melanie Mitzner
Inanna Publications. Winner of the Best Book Award from American Book Fest.
The Rogue wave by Paul Nicholas mason
Now or Never Publishing.
University of Alberta Press. Winner of the Howard O’Hagan short Story Award (Alberta Writers’ Guild). Winner of the Trade Fiction Book of the Year from the Alberta Book Publishing Awards
THE WAITING PLACE BY SHARRON ARKSEY
Turnstone Press
Shortlisted for the High Plains Book Awards First Book and for the High Plains Book Awards Woman Writer
I have also edited/copy edited…
Double Wahala Double Trouble by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike [Shortlisted for the Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher and the Short Story Collection Award (Alberta)]
Separation Anxiety by Gavin Bradley [Winner: Bridges of Struga International Poetry Award]
Annie Muktuk and Other Stories by Norma Dunning [University of Alberta Press. Winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, The Indie Book of the Year Award, and the Howard O’Hagan Award. Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize.]
A Different Wolf by Deborah-Anne Tunney [Winner: Archibald Lampman Poetry Prize]
Indie Rock by Joe Bishop [Shortlisted for the J. M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award]
The Greatest Lover of Last Tuesday by Neil McKinnon
The Glass Character by Margaret Gunning
Queen of the Godforsaken by Mix Hart
Glass Bricks by Louella Lester
The Dry Valley by Bernadette Wagner [Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry]
The Negation of Chronology by Rebecca Luce-Kapler
Music from a Strange Planet by Barbara Black [Winner of the Indie Discovery Award for Short Stories, long listed for the Miramichi Reader’s Very Best Book Award, Shortlisted for the Canadian Book Club Award, Winner of the Sunshine Coast’s Writers and Editors Society Award]
(M)Othering eds. Anne Sorbie, Heidi Grogan
Impact: Women Writing after Concussion eds. Cawthorne, Morin [Winner of the Trade Nonfiction Book of the Year by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta]
Such a Lovely Afternoon by Patti Flather
That Audible Slippage by Margaret Christakos [Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry]
I have also evaluated or worked on…
The Left-Handed Dinner Party by Myrl Coulter
Unquiet Bones by Peter Midgley [Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize]
Selah by Nora Gould [Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry]
let us not think of them as barbarians by Peter Midgley [Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize]
The Weeping Chair by Donald Ward [Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Awards for Fiction, Book of the Year, and City of Saskatoon. Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Short Fiction]
The Bus by Adam Pottle [Shortlisted for two Saskatchewan Book Awards]
Tell Them It Was Mozart by Angeline Schellenberg [Winner of the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for best first book and the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Poetry.]
Hidden City by Jeremy Stewart [Winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry]
Stained with the Colours of Sunday Morning by Rayanne Haines