Awards
Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Books Spring 2018, Payback
Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Books Fall 2015, Rise of the Zombie Scarecrows
Resource Links ‘The Year’s Best’ 2013, Caught in the Act
YALSA Quick Picks nominee 2013, Sidetracked
Junior Library Guild Selection, Fall 2011, Just Run
Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Books 2011, Struck
Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Books 2009 / Amelia Bloomer Project List 2010 Cleavage: Breakaway Fiction for Real Girls
Resource Links ‘The Year’s Best’ 2010 / Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Best Books 2012, The Snowball Effect
Resource Links Best Books 2008, Cleavage: Breakaway Fiction for Real Girls
Resource Links Best Books 2001, The Twisting Road Tea Room
Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Literary Competition 2004, 2nd prize, Children’s category, Narrative poem, “It Happened”
Published by Scholastic Canada for their ‘Literacy Place for the Early Years’ program, Fall 2006, retitled, “The Thing I Saw Last Night”.
Great Canadian Story Contest: Small Miracle, Shortlisted, Summer 2006
Scarborough Arts Council Full Circle Poetry Competition 2005
Third prize, “Dried Flowers”
Canadian Children’s Book Centre Choices:
All I Need and Other Poems for Kids, 2000
A Pocketful of Rocks, 2001
A Pocketful of Fur, 2003
John Spencer Hill Award–first prize, 2000, Like Smoke–Short adult fiction, the Valley Writers’ Guild
The Sean Ryan Children’s Fund annual poetry competition, 1999, Special Prize, Childhood Category, The Evidence of Your Childhood
Publications
Seagulls (poem)
Chirp Magazine, June 2001
My Tropical Beach (poem)
Chirp Magazine, June 2002
On My Way (poem)
Chirp Magazine, November 2003
A Sunny Land (poem)
Chirp Magazine, June 2004
The Kids are All Right (article)
The Lazy Writer, Fall / Winter 1999
The Year in Children’s Literature (article)
Write Magazine, Yearbook 2001
Sand Dancing (adult short story)
Ottawa At Home, September 2004
Seagulls
The Ship’s Whistle (BC Ferries, 2002)
Poetricks (poem riddles)
Toronto Star, Starship, October, November, December 1992
Relating Column
Toronto Star, December 1992
The Garbage Beast (poem)
Computer Keyboarding, Copp Clark Longman Ltd., 1994
Winter Morn / I’ve Watched the Wind (poems)
The Atlantic Advocate, Dec. 1981, July 1982
There’s Lots to do Around Town
Sunday Sun, Nov. 1983
poems, stories, articles, crafts
Spires Magazine, associate editor, 1980 – 1995
Like Smoke (adult short story)
The Grist Mill, 2001
Stink Stank Stunk
An Early Worm Got Out of Bed And Other Poems to Read Out Loud, Scholastic Canada Ltd., 2007
Make A Dragon Puppet
Let’s Celebrate, Scholastic Canada Ltd., 2007
Birchwood East
Tower Poetry, Summer Edition, 1999
Stories: Lost and Found (article)
The Canadian Writer’s Guide, 13th edition, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2003
The Handyman’s Friend (adult short story)
The Lazy Writer, spring 1999
Sand Dancing / Breaking Tradition / Room for Uncle Clive / Counter Swipes / Like Smoke / Small Miracle (adult short stories)
Storyteller Magazine, 1996 – 2006
Your Child’s Body Image (co-written with Jocelyn Shipley)
ParentsCanada, Winter 2007/08
Chendra’s Journal
Scholastic Canada, 2008
Mystery of the Serpent Ring
Scholastic Canada, 2008
Director’s Journal
Scholastic Canada, 2009
Case File 070504-RRH
Scholastic Canada, 2009
Writer’s Block (stage play)
Scholastic Canada, 2009
Hi Deb,
Were some of the horsephotos taken at the Dominion Experimental Farm in Ottawa? I visited with Lisa in July, and the buildings look a bit familiar.
No, they were taking around the Wellington County area, near Fergus, Isobel…lovely countryside indeed!