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.
Longlisted for the 2023 Scotia Bank Giller Prize for Fiction
University of Alberta Press, 2022
The Dragon Run by Tony Robinson-Smith
University of Alberta Press, 2017. Shortlisted for the WFNB Non-Fiction Prize.
So you’re a little sad, so what? by Alicia Tobin
Arsenal Pulp Press, 2019.
The Melting Queen by Bruce Cinnamon
NeWest Press, 2019. Shortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize - Literary Fiction Category. Shortlisted for Best Speculative Fiction in the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards.
The Loneliness of the Time Traveller by Erika Rummel
Inanna Publications, 2022
Tiny Lights for Travellers by Naomi K. Lewis
University of Alberta Press, 2019.
Shortlisted for the 2019 Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction. Winner of the 2020 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).
From my mother’s back by Njoki Wane
Wolsak&Wynn, 2019.
Still me by Jeffrey John Eyamie
Turnstone Press, 2020.
Patterson House by Jane Cawthorne
Inanna Publications, 2022
Mawenzi House, 2022
The Friesen Press, 2023
What You Take With You by Therese Greenwood
University of Alberta Press, 2019.
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, 2018. Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize.
Slow Reveal by Melanie Mitzner
Inanna Publications, 2022
The Rogue wave by Paul Nicholas mason
Now or Never Publishing, 2021.
University of Alberta Press, 2023
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, 2017. 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]
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
The Negation of Chronology by Rebecca Luce-Kapler
Music from a Strange Planet by Barbara Black
(M)Othering eds. Anne Sorbie, Heidi Grogan
Impact: Women Writing after Concussion eds. Cawthorne, Morin
Such a Lovely Afternoon by Patti Flather
I have also evaluated or worked on…
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 2012 Saskatchewan Book Awards for Fiction, Book of the Year, and City of Saskatoon. Shortlisted for the 2012 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]
The Left-Handed Dinner Party by Myrl Coulter
Stained with the Colours of Sunday Morning by Rayanne Haines