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Publication History

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Singing the Bones, Fat Salmon Cinema, Inc. 2001

World Premiere: Montreal World Film Festival

Theatre

Playwrights Union of Canada (1998) Toronto, Ontario, Singing the Bones

International Reader’s Theatre (1998) Winnipeg, Manitoba:

Six Palm Trees and Just a Little Fever

Anthology

Fiddlehead, No 231, Spring 2007, Frederickton, New Brunswick, Canada, Catholic Love

Playwrights Canada Press (2004) Toronto, She Speaks: one monologue from Just  A Little Fever

Knight Literary Journal, Volume 2 (2004), Virginia, USA: George Goes for a Walk, short story

Smith & Kraus (2000) New York, Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2000: Four monologues from Just a Little Fever

Smith & Kraus (1998) New York, Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 1997:Two monologues from Singing the Bones

Awards

A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE, iBooks, Best New Fiction, Spring 2015

A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE, BRONZE MEDAL Book of the Year (Literary Fiction) INDIEFAB AWARDS, 2015

A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE, Winner: Somerset Awards, 1st Place Best Literary Fiction

DC TOP 50 Must Read Books of 2015

HE Francis Short Story Competition – One South  – Semifinalist

John Spencer Hill Fiction Award – That Rescue Feeling – Shortlisted

Radio

CBC: Commentary (1997), National Broadcast,Canada: One of those days

CBC: Morningside (1996), National Broadcast, Canada: Cornucopia

CBC: Commentary (1996), National Broadcast, Canada: A Woman’s Body

CBC: Almanac(1994 & 1995), Regional Broadcast, British Columbia

Read Island Santa Claus, My First Christmas with Rachel, Cornucopia & Christmas Monster of Ripple Rock

Print

COAST REPORTER, (2105) series: Art is Life a Road Trip for the Senses

FEATHERED FLOUNDER, (December 2012) Saving Scarlett, short story

LMU MAGAZINE (2010), Los Angeles, My Take

MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL (2003), Wisconsin, A visit for remembrance

JUST BUSINESS PEOPLE (2009), Sunshine Coast, B.C.: A place of quiet celebration

GEORGIA STRAIGHT(1998) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Birthing Pains

3rd International Homebirth Conference published in:

Birth Gazette, (1997) Summertown, TN

Midwifery Matters, UK (1997)

Midwifery Today (1998) United States

Birthing (1997) Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Online Birth Center News (1997)

The Good News Network (1997) Online

BIRTH ISSUES (Fall, 1997) Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer: Alberta, Canada: I am a cultural worker

HERIZONS (1996) Winnipeg, Manitoba: One Man’s Family

BIRTH GAZETTE, Summertown, TN: (1996) Fourth Annual Birth Gazette Conference

VANCOUVER SUN, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (1993) The Weekend Sun: Trouble in Paradise

(1992) Voices: Doctors Must Also Share the Pain

THE COAST NEWS (1992 – 1994) Sunshine Coast, B.C. Canada Biweekly column – Mountains of Things

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (1980 Datebook) San Francisco, California:

David Heller’s Style – News with a View

The Events of Tomorrow, According to David Hoy

Night Waves with Ponek – A Time for Hope and Dreams

The Middle East: Images of Other Cultures   &  The Double Wink of Big Tom

SAN FRANCISCO PROGRESS (1980) San Francisco, California: Leo Ciolino is a Weather Watcher

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Datebook:

(1978) You Develop a Sense of Humor Reporting the News

(1979) The Wake Up Voice of Hart, Uncanned, Unscripted

THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (1974) Los Angeles, California, Daily Camp Fund articles

CATALYST MAGAZINE (1973), Grandpa’s Story

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