So that July trip to South Korea was *amazing*! Seriously, the most fun teaching I've ever in one breathless week of glitter, glue-guns, and ghost stories, followed by an incredible week in Seoul advocating for CanKidLit at the embassy, touring libraries and giving author talks, and taking part in cultural activities! Thrilled to see so many brilliant artists (of all ages) contributing to the 2024-2025 Canada-Korea Year of Cultural Exchange and continue to strengthen our ties to such amazing people and places���and very proud of our students and their creativity! Love to all my new friends and I hope to meet you again on either side of the Pacific!

Upcoming Events & AppearancesOctober 4: Comox Valley Writers' Society Local Author Book Fair at the Little Red Church Community Arts Centre in Comox, BCOctober 24: "Read Local, Teach Local: Resources for Incorporating BC Books Into the Classroom" presentation & CWILL BC table at the BC Teacher-Librarians' Association Fall Conference at Gladstone Secondary School, Vancouver, BCNovember 22-23: Comox Valley Writers' Society Local Authors' Table at the Fanny Bay Christmas Market, FBCA Community Centre, Fanny Bay, BCDecember 20-21: Comox Valley Writers' Society Local Authors' Table at the Queneesh Holiday Market & Workshops at the Filber Centre, Courtenay, BC

Educators/institutions/etc., feel free to reach out about fall/winter author visits, workshops, creative education/arts residencies, presentations, continuing ed. and other bookings���I'm only a Zoom, plane, or ferry ride away! (Bonus tip: can be on the mainland week of/following Oct. 24 with no added travel charges!)

Coming Soon

The fall publishing calendar is bursting!

Keep an eye out for:

"Powerhouse" in The Kindread Coast (Black Cat Books, October) "The Patron Saint of Flatliners" reprinted in Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 3 (Ansible Press, November) "The Pink Slime's Appointment With Destiny" reprinted in Really Big, Pointy Teeth: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Edited by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, TBA 2025) "Crumbling of the Sandwich Generation" (Factor Four, TBA 2025) and "The Mistletoe Matchmaker Is Wilting", a stunningly bizarre winter horror fable based on a creative writing brainstorming exercise from my teen creative writing workshop last fall, reserved for an unpcoming but yet-to-be-announced issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine this winter!

(Reviewers/awards-season readers, contact me directly (info@kawiggins.com) for copies of anything not free to read online.)

Stay tuned for further announcements and thanks for reading West Coast Weird!����