Essays

October 2023. On establishing rituals on the land, and what emerges. Published in Dark Mountain Issue 24, Eight Fires, "a book of practices, testimony, tools, ceremony, stories, art and poetry, inspired by the 82 people who went into their local territories to make an embodied connection with the more-than-human worlds, and brought back its treasures."

https://dark-mountain.net/lighting-the-homing-fire/

October 2022. In this issue titled Dead and Alive: Being with Ancestors, Sharon Simone and I weave together shared dreams, experiences and insights guided by the wisdom and spirit of writer Barry Lopez.

July 2020. Dark Mountain Project blog. Part of the DMP’s Outbreak series on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

January 2020. A reflection on growing up in an age of normalized annihilation, and uncovering other narratives. CNQ Issue 106 – Writing in an Age of Unravelling, guest edited by Sharon English and Patricia Robertson.

“Who do we have to become to find the forms and sacred language with which to meet these times?” In my conversation for The Dark Mountain Project with the eminent writer, activist and healer Deena Metzger, we discuss our relationship to the sacred in a time of ecological unravelling. July 2018.

Eight featured writers, myself included, in conversation about the issue’s writing and the topic of making kin.

Part of “Writing to Re-see the World,” discussion with fellow Toronto-based fiction writers Catherine Bush, Kyo Maclear and Alissa York. 

On Sharing The Fire, the first Dark Mountain-themed gathering in Canada, which I co-organized in August 2015. Published February 2016.

A short reflection on reading Alfred’s powerful and inspiring book about restoring Indigenous cultures in Canada, and why this matters to all Canadians.  Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, Issue 3.