A partial manuscript (30,000 words) of my ongoing story collection (entitled "The Purpose of Evolution is not Immortality" - taken from a line in one of the stories) was awarded the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick's David Adams Richards Prize this past month.

Adjudicator/author Michelle Butler Hallett said this:

Sophisticated literary fiction: haunts, tickles, and disturbs — and subverts. I laughed several times in places I later felt I shouldn’t, and I often shuddered. I at once admired the writer’s technique, and experienced emotional connections with the characters; those two things don’t always happen. Because the writer seems to be not as concerned with plot as much as what the characters believe is happening, some stories risk sag in the middle. Overall, however, the work is a delight: rich and strange.