Writing & Media

Media:

Grassroots the minor hockey show podcast – (2019-Present)

Grassroots: the minor hockey show – co-hosted with Gregg Kennedy on TSN 1200 Ottawa (2014-18)

Fiction:

Novel

 

The Burden of Guilt –  co-authored with E.W. Zrudlo – available on Amazon, Kindle, & Kobo

 

 

 

 

Short stories
Winner of Arthur Ellis Award – Crime Writers of Canada – Best Short Story: “Dead Run”
(Reprinted in Arthur Ellis Awards anthology and Les Prix Arthur Ellis-1)
Winner of The Joker is Wild humour award – The Grist Mill  

Plays 
Dead Run
A Tale from The Teuth Ferry
Christian Slater’s father
The Cellar
Guinea pig on a wheel (with DECA Playwrights)
Just Desserts (with DECA Playwrights)
Love me…now! (with DECA Playwrights)

Non-fiction:

Brooklin Town Crier – Editor

Ottawa Citizen – columns and essays (pdf samples below)
Obscure party of Canada
Bottle of Cow
For whom the car tolls
The future of sensible parenting

Bounder Magazine – health/humour columnist (pdf sample below)
Out damned spot

Ottawa Citizen column about teaching
Ottawa Citizen interview

Ottawa Life Magazine – humour columnist
Montreal Gazette – sportswriter 

The Hockey News and Hockey World magazine – writer
Canadian Marathon Stories – contributing writer

Teaching background

  • Over 35 years in public and private schools in Montreal and Ottawa
  • Dept. head in athletics and English + V.P. Designate