CONNECT Magazine (2021 – current) 

While I dedicated most of time working with CONNECT Magazine to editing the magazine and coordinating contributor articles for the Travel section, I also penned a number of articles myself, including one English Teacher’s month-long journey to visit every single town in Hyogo by bike, a guide to Hokkaido’s best mountains and a retrospective on travelling during the COVID years. 

A number of short stories were also selected to be put in the magazine’s annual Art Issues:

• Crowbars and Cat Food (2025)
• Mantrap (2024)
• At first, a trickle (2023)

Ocean Drive Magazine (2015 – 2017)

The quarterly Ocean Drive magazine published long form features from Australia’s Mid West region. Targeted mainly at tourists making their way along the scenic sea-side route, it was full of travel advice and local colour. Of the work I contributed to its pages, my favourite pieces were a look into Geraldton’s hidden wildlife, and a profile of some very intruiging local personalities, the Geraldton ghost hunters (page 1, page 2).

The Snorri Program (2015)

After living in North America I was given the chance to research the history of my immigrant family through a cultural exchange program to Iceland. While engaged in the Snorri Program, I produced work to aid in communication and marketing for the program, via blog articles on the Snorri Program website, as well as contributing a bit of songwriting to the Icelandic-Canadian newspaper Lögberg-Heimskringla.

Grok Magazine (2012-13)

A student magazine through and through, Grok filled its pages with bold, confrontational designs. Off-the-wall story pitches were very much encouraged.

As well as covering shows by local artists, I took an early chance to pursue my interest in science writing, meeting the publication’s desire for provocation with a pair of human biology features on The Mystery of the Male Nipple and the then-popular fad of “Uberman” sleep cycles with Faster than the Speed of Life. I must admit this writing hasn’t aged gracefully, and certainly evidences more than a little of my younger self’s igorance (I can only hope to have eliminated at least some of that in the years since), but having work published at this early stage was fundamental to me continuing the pursuit of writing, so these stories remain important to me—flawed as they are.