Publications, festivals and premieres, awards, performances, community
Publications
“I resent poetry” Poem. Funicular Magazine 13. 2024. Print.
“Punctuating the Glory” Personal essay. The Sycamore Review 33.1. Winter 2023. Print.
“Waiting on the world again” Poem. Session Stories beer can project (CKUA and Blindman Brewing). May 2022.
“What’s Lizzie Derksen Reading?” Article. The New Quarterly blog. November 2021. Web.
“Mushroom Girl” Story. The New Quarterly 160. Fall 2021. Print.
“The Future” Essay. Liner notes, Alternate Utopias From A Nostalgic Future, Saint Idiot. September 2021.
“Sugarbowl” Poem. Session Stories beer can project (CKUA and Blindman Brewing). May 2021.
“Wings of Desire” Flash fiction. The Cabinet of Heed. January 2021. Web.
“Wintering in the Bubble” Personal essay. The Antigonish Review 200. Fall 2020. Print.
“The Murder House” Story. Queen Mob’s Teahouse. 2020. Web.
“springtime” Poem. Chaudiere Books’ blog series for National Poetry Month. 2020. Web.
“Lizzie Derksen’s (small press) writing day” Article. My (small press) writing day. 2020. Web.
“Lucy flies from Calgary to Victoria” Poem. Train. 2020. Web.
“wife eating a pear out in the open” “Tuesday night at the Sugarbowl, again” “January 17” Poems. Train 8. 2020. Print.
Esther Spellicy in the Main Game Three stories. With/out Pretend. 2019. Print.
“Aunt Rachel goes camping” Poem. Poetry Is Dead 19. Summer 2019. Print.
“gate” Poem. The Vault: On Pleasure. 2019. Print.
“Viva Puff” Poem. Funicular Magazine 1. 2019. Print.
“fancy tulips” Poem. Funicular Magazine. 2018. Web.
“Ella” Story. PRISM International 56.4. 2018. Print.
“On 99th Street: Capital Tailors” Flash. Short Edition short story dispenser, Edmonton International Airport. 2017.
“Goose Egg” Re-titled “North.” Novella, published as part of Project Compass. Monto Books. 2017. Print.
“The Jackson Pollock” Re-titled “The Tale of the Dead Man’s Latte.” Story. Sprudge. 2017. Web.
“Cakeland” Story. The Bolo Tie Anthology Volume 1. 2016. Print.
“First Class Citizens” Article. The Yards Magazine. Fall 2016. Print.
“The Siren and the Worm” Story. Sprudge. 2016. Web.
“Passenger” Flash. Soliloquies Anthology. 2016. Web.
“On Being Non-Monogamous in Alberta While the Price of Oil is Going to Hell” Essay. GUTS Magazine. Summer 2016. Web.
“In Search of Halal” Article. Avenue Magazine (Edmonton). July 2016. Print.
“grip” Poem. 40 Below Volume 2. Wufniks Press. 2015. Print.
“Bad Coffee: Why do people love it?” Article. Sprudge. 2015. Web.
“An army marches in on its stomach” Poem. YEGWORDS coffee sleeve project. 2015.
“Indian Summer” Poem. The Blue Hour. 2014. Web.
“Thirteenth House” Poem. The White Wall Review 36. 2012. Print.
“Ossis” Poem. Room Magazine 35.3. 2012. Print.
“Cat’s Attempt” “Cat as Athlete Philosopher” “Cat Wants” “Cat Spent a Month” “Cat Fucks” Poems. Confluence 12 (MacEwan University). 2012. Print.
“Cat Wants” “Scene with one character” Poems. The White Wall Review 33. 2009. Print.
“The Exhibit” “Stories” “Darling face and hands—” “The Millennium Tea-Party” “Don’t Tax the Language” “The Sculptor” Poems. Notebook Magazine 2.5. 2008. Print.
“safety on icy roads” Poem. Other Voices Journal of the Literary and Visual Arts 20.2. 2008. Print.
Festivals and premieres
Making Kayfabe Producer. Absolutely Canadian S24 E5. CBC Television and CBC Gem. February 2024.
Tom in the Physical World Producer, director, cinematographer, and editor. Gotta Minute Film Festival (10th anniversary commission). Edmonton, Alberta. September 2023.
Digging in the Dirt Writer, voiceover narration. Absolutely Canadian S19 E23. CBC Television and CBC Gem. September 2019.
Hot Seat 2 Director and cinematographer. Blue Revue. Edmonton, Alberta. September 2019.
Cricket Producer, writer, director, and editor. Nextfest. Edmonton, Alberta. June 2019.
gate Writer and performer. On Pleasure: A night of storytelling. Tranzac Club. Toronto, Ontario. March 2019.
Hot Seat Director, cinematographer, and editor. Blue Revue. Edmonton, Alberta. September 2018.
gnossienne Producer, director, cinematographer, and editor. Gotta Minute Film Festival. Edmonton, Alberta. September 2018.
Cricket Producer, writer, director, and editor. Spirit of FAVA Award of Excellence. FAVA Fest. Edmonton, Alberta. April 2018.
‘compersion’ Producer, director and editor. Blue Revue. Edmonton, Alberta. September 2017.
Redbird Producer, performer, and editor. Gotta Minute Film Festival. Edmonton, Alberta. September 2015.
Awards
Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award - runner up “Mushroom Girl.” The New Quarterly. 2021
Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Emerging Artists Alberta. 2018.
Spirit of FAVA Award of Excellence Cricket. Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta. 2017.
Gloria Sawai Senior English Prize “Thrift.” MacEwan University. 2016.
Performances
Aunt Rachel Says 13 Poems Writer and director, 13 monologue performances. Back Alley Book Nook. Athabasca, Alberta. February 20, 2020.
Aunt Rachel Says 13 Poems Writer and director, 13 monologue performances. Glass Bookshop. Edmonton, Alberta. November 27, 2019.
Aunt Rachel Says 8 Poems Writer and performer, 8 monologues. Variety Punch, Grindstone Theatre. Edmonton, Alberta. March 20, 2019.
The Olive presents Lizzie Derksen Writer and performer, 30 minute poetry set. The Olive Reading Series. The Almanac. Edmonton, Alberta. February 13, 2018.
Community
Tin House Winter Workshop Participant in Morgan Thomas’s short fiction workshop. 2023.
Writing Sex - Garth Greenwell The Shipman Agency. Workshop participant. 2021.
Alberta Literary Awards Short fiction juror. 2021.
Tin House Winter Workshop Participant in Tania James’s short fiction workshop. 2021.
Tin House Mentorship Program Mentored by Megan Giddings on revision of full ms of Modular. 2021.
Style in Fiction - Garth Greenwell The Shipman Agency. Workshop participant. 2020.
Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta Treasurer. 2018-2019.
City of St. Albert Consulting poet, 2018 poet laureate selection committee.
Other Voices Journal of the Literary and Visual Arts Associate editor, poetry editor. 2010-2011.
