Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting at Queen’s Graduate English Society’s “Works in Progress” event. The presentation (titled “‘Ballad of a Thin Man’: Surveying Methods of ‘Improvising on a Self’”) is about my current MA thesis project, where I am working on…
*This post is a “blog essay” for ENGL 859 “Victorian Vampires” at Queen’s University. Introduction When Playboi Carti‘s album Whole Lotta Red was released on Christmas day in 2020, people mostly hated it. I remember the regularity of phrases like…
When I look back at my undergrad at Queen’s from where I sit now, I can’t believe it. Especially not my last semester: I took six courses, all of which were fourth-year English seminars (six of the ten I took…
Over the last half-year, I’ve had various friends/peers/strangers ask to read my short stories “Ballad of a Thin Man” and “Wild Rover,” which were published in Lake Effect 10. After The Queen’s Journal published my postscript, “Living honestly, writing authentically:…
Along with a talented team of peers, I spent the entire last school year creating Quilt (queensquilt.ca), an undergraduate literary publication at Queen’s University. From the website: “We aim to interweave student voices and reconcile the divide between the creative…
The Queen’s Journal’s Lifestyle Editor, Alysha Mohamed, asked me if I’d write the postscript (generally a personal story at the end of the paper) for their 2021 Frosh in Focus issue—an edition of the paper that launches in the summer,…
This is my first attempt at pushing updates through my website in a sort of “what’s new” fashion that I hope will be semi-consistent going forward! Being about 20,000 words deep into my first attempt at a novel, Sadie McFadden,…
