Novel
Winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, ReLit Award for Fiction Finalist, Winnipeg Free Press Book Club Pick, Toronto Star’s Top Ten Reads for Pride Month
Twenty-seven-year-old Isaac Funk is broke, drifting, and questioning his lonely existence on the East Coast. Having left his conservative hometown of Newfield, Manitoba full of piss and vinegar, Isaac’s dreams of studying music and embracing queer culture in Halifax have gradually fizzled out. When his grandfather dies and leaves him a substantial inheritance, Isaac is pulled back to the Prairies for the first time in ten years. Finding his father Abe just as enigmatic as always and his extended family more fragmented than ever, Isaac begins to wonder if there will ever be a place for him in Newfield. Is the prodigal son home for good, or is it time to cut and run once more?
Available now through your local independent bookstore in Canada or the United States, online retailers such as Amazon, or direct from Enfield & Wizenty, the literary imprint of Great Plains Press.
Short Stories
- “The Pod” in Through the Portal: Stories from a Hopeful Dystopia (Exile Editions, 2024)
- “Meat Market” in Grain (2024)
- “See a Penny” in Grain (2024)
- “The Little Things” in The Antigonish Review (2024)
- “Only Gay Mennonite” in Plenitude (2024)
- “Goodnight, Reverend” in The Humber Literary Review (2023)
- “Drought” in Mennotoba (2023)
- “Yard Sale” in Blink and You’ll Miss It: Moose House Stories Vol. 2 (Moose House Publications, 2022)
- “Hecla” in The /tƐmz/ Review (2022)
- “With Deepest Sympathy for Your Failures as a Father” in takahē (2021)
- “Good Days, Bad Days” in Very Much Alive: Stories of Resilience (The Selkie Publications CIC, 2021)
- “Black Rock Bingo” in The Trinity Review (2021)
- “The First Time Is Always Special” in Grain (2020)
- “Radio Silence” in The Quilliad (2019)
- “The Hall” in Moose House Stories Vol. 1 (Moose House Publications, 2019)
- “Home” in The Antigonish Review (2018)
Poetry
- “meditations on the dying ficus in my living room window” in Room (2023)
- “Night Out” in QT (2021)
- “Afterwards, After Words” in The Quilliad (2019)
- “A Pep Talk for All the Days I Can’t Face the World” in The Quilliad (2019)
Creative Nonfiction
- “Fragments” in The Antigonish Review (2021)