Upcoming events
Canada Fiction Fest Science Fiction Author Readings
People sometimes raise an eyebrow when When the Trees All Burned is shelved alongside science fiction—it reads like literary fiction, it feels like grief—but at its core, it is undeniably sci-fi. The apocalypse is triggered by a near-earth asteroid event rooted in real astrophysics: blind spots in our tracking systems, the cascading tectonic consequences of impact, a Trifecta of Destruction that NASA dismissed right up until it couldn’t. The technology at the heart of the story—ArkHive nanotechnology that burrows into the stomach lining and transmits biological data to determine who is “worthy” of survival—is the kind of concept that lives comfortably next to the best of the genre. A cosmonaut orbiting a dying planet, counting down his remaining days. A synthetic womb. A survival dome housing 200 carefully selected humans while the world burns above them. Science fiction has always been the genre brave enough to ask the hardest questions about humanity’s future—I just chose to answer them from the inside out.
Canada Fiction Fest Author Panel: Climate Change Fiction: Reckoning and Resilience
Join me online for this free panel discussion. I write climate fiction from the inside out—not as a distant political warning, but as a deeply human reckoning. Climate fiction compels us because it's the one genre where the stakes are already real—we don't have to suspend disbelief, we just have to pay attention. When the Trees All Burned doesn't ask what if the world ends? —it asks who are you when it does? Set against a catastrophe decades in the making (rising oceans, destabilized tectonic plates, a planet pushed past its tipping point), the story follows the 200 people chosen to survive inside a survival dome while 99.998% of humanity doesn't. I'm interested in the intersection of environmental collapse and moral complicity—the question of who gets saved and why, and the uncomfortable truth that resilience looks a lot like grief before it looks like hope. I'll be bringing the messy, literary, human side of the reckoning to this panel: the part that happens after the scientists stop talking.
West Grey Festival of Stories
Details are still being figured out, but expect a day full of literary fun: author spotlights, panel discussions, book sale, special author speaker. This page will be updated as plans are finalized.
Author Panel @ The Word on the Bay
Join me in Thornbury for this free event, put on by the SOUTH GEORGIAN BAY WRITERS’ CONNECTION. I’ll be on an author panel discussing the practical financial aspects of writing for publication.
Fireplace Chats - Author Talk
Join me beside the fireplace at the Owen Sound Public Library as I share about my book, do a little reading, and offer copies for sale.
CollingWORD 2025
Join me in Collingwood as I share a reading during the CollingWord festival.
Fantasy Forum Panel
Join me in London as I serve as a featured author on the interactive creative panels.
Author Panel
West Grey has a thriving writers' community - join myself and a handful of amazing published authors for their take on the writing life!
Fireplace Chats - Let’s Talk About When The Trees All Burned
Join me beside the fireplace at the Owen Sound Public Library as I share about my book, do a little reading, and offer copies for sale.
Book Launch: When The Trees All Burned
Save the date! Join me at the Durham Art Gallery as I celebrate the launch of my new book!