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Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road has won the 2026 Dean’s Prize for Accessible Scholarly Writing from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Regina (my employer). The Associate Dean who looks after the research aspect of the faculty, Tom McIntosh, stated that the book “demonstrates how works…

My essay “Treaty 4 raises hard questions like how did ‘Crown land’ come to be?” has been published on The Conversation. Check it out here.

Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road has received two Saskatchewan Book Award nominations, in the Nonfiction and City of Regina categories. More information about the awards is available on the SBA’s website, and a list of this year’s nominations is here. Congratulations to all of the nominees!

My essay, “The Bear on the Path to Tofino,” has won the 2025 McNally Robinson Books Creative Nonfiction Prize and will be published in the summer issue of Prairie Fire. More information is available here. Congratulations to the other winners and runners-up, and thank you to the contest judge, Basma Kavanaugh.

Walking the Bypass has received a warm reception from Matthew Anderson in The Miramichi Reader. Take a look at what he has to say here.

My audio essay about writing Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road has been posted at On Creative Writing. Take a look, or rather a listen.

Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road will be launched at McNally Robinson Booksellers in Saskatoon on January 21 at 7:00 p.m. My conversation partner will be award-winning poet and creative-writing processor Sheri Benning. The event will be live in the store and streamed on YouTube. Details are available here.

Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road has been reviewed by Spencer Morrison in the Literary Review of Canada. So many excellent books published in this country get little attention; Walking the Bypass has received two reviews, this one and the earlier discussion in Harper’s Magazine. I am beyond grateful.…

I’ll be interviewed about Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road on the show Toast and Coffee on Regina’s CJTR, 91.3 FM, on December 8 at 12:30 CST. The interview will be posted on the show’s website if you’re interested but unable to listen live.

I’m interviewed by Sabrina Cataldo in Degrees Magazine, alongside two fantastic writers (and University of Regina alumni), Iryn Tushabe and Melanie Schnell. Take a look!