I’m pleased to have a couple of new stories published in print and online this year:
“Welcome to the Margins” — about an aging librarian obsessed with marginalia — was published in The Humber Literary Review, my first time in its pages. (The full issue is available to read free online for a limited time — so check out my story and all the other great pieces in HLR Volume 11, Issue 2.)
“Social Animals” — about a bully brother who discovers how his family really feels about him — was published in DarkWinter Literary Magazine, a newish online magazine that offers prose and poetry with a dark twist. It’s always available to read free, so check out my story and get lost in all the twisty pieces published this year.
I wrote short fiction for adults in my youth and published about a dozen stories in literary journals in the 1990s. (The New Quarterly, one of the few greats that survived the decades since, was actually new back then!)
After I had children and read a thousand great kids’ books, I started writing for young people. And I still do. I treasure the time I spend in schools and libraries teaching creative writing to young people — because my own kids are long grown and I need the inspiration of energetic modern youth.
But I also write for adults these days. Ten years ago, I wrote a story for Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast, and I’ve written a few stories a year since then. I’ve published many in literary journals and I hope to publish a collection one day. In the meantime, I’ll keep submitting individual pieces to literary journals. It’s a treat to find my work among all those other wonderful contemporary pieces by other writers.
If you also write short fiction, check out my Canadian LitMag List and submit something today.
Catherine Austen 