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Writing Programs/Workshops:

Moniak Mhor, Inversness, Scotland, 30th Anniversary Online Masterclass with: Helen Oyeyemi

2024 Mar 31 and Aug 1

Go and Write : Kingsbrae International Artist Residence, St. Andrews, NB, with Gerard Collins

2023June 16-23; Sept 5-12

2022July 16-21; July 23-28

Iceland Writers Retreat : Reykjavik, Iceland, fiction (prose)

2024 Apr 24 – 30 with: Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Omar El Akkad, Deirdre Mask, Fríða Ísberg, and Meg Wolitzer. Icelandic Panel discussion

2023 Apr 25 – May 2: with Chloe Aridjis, Helen Oyeyemi, Rúnar Helgi Vignisson; and Icelandic Panel with Fríða Ísberg, Brynja Hjálmsdóttir,

2022 Apr. 28 – May 3: with Elnathon John, Aminatta Forna, Kristín Helga Gunnarsdóttir, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

2021April (virtual retreat) with Rory Maclean, Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson, Randy Boyagoda, Kate Williams

2020October (virtual event) with Neel Mukherjee, Ruth Reichl, Gerður Kristný, Lilja Sigurðardóttir, Fríða Ísberg, Mazen Maarouf.

2019 Apr. 3-9 : with Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson, Louis de Bernière, Paul Yoon 

Summer Literary Seminars, Vilnius, Lithuania, Aug. 2011- Prose (fiction) with Joe Kertes and Josip Novakovich

The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 2006- Mountain Writing with Marni Jackson and Tony Whittome

St. Lawrence College, Kingston, Ontario, 1991- Writing a Book Length Manuscript – with Allan Brown

Publishing Credits (Writing):

Agnes and True (online journal), “Birds of Paradise” (publ Nov. 2016); Nominated by Agnes and True for the Writers Trust Journey Prize 2017 

The Louisiana Review, “Dottie’s TV” (Volume 11 2013)

Phati’tude Literary Magazine, Summer 1960 Special Issues: “Weren’t We Nifty”, (Nov. 2011), postcard story

WRITERS’ONLINE FORUM, The Secret Life of Art

The Agnes Etherington Art Centre published online responses to the exhibition Telling Stories, Secret Lives: “Post-Screamism,” by Lisa Morriss-Andrews in response to the art work, “Reckless Days” 24 April 2006 *(First Prize)

Kingston This Week, June 1995: ‘My Father’s Anniversary’

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