REcent Publications:
Alberta Views Magazine (December 2024): Barb’s profile piece “The Non-judgemental Judge” about Alberta Chief Justice Ritu Khullar.
Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature (September 2024, online): short story “Summitting” about a hiking date arranged through an outdoorsy dating app. Read it here (once on the journal site, click on “Barb Howard” and the story title ”Summiting.”) Nominated for a Canadian Online Publishing award.
WestWord Magazine (January 2024): Barb’s essay “The Novella” explores the current state of the genre.
Beer can stories by Barb and Blindman Brewing
RECENT MEDIA:
Barb and Shawn Breathes Books: Second Annual Novella Project (Part 1 Spring 2024)
Barb and Shawn the Book Maniac Talk Novellas (Part 2, November 2023)
Barb and Shawn the Book Maniac Talk Novellas (Part 1, June 2023)
“A Day in the Life” with Calgary Writer Barb Howard (Calgary Guardian, April 26, 2023)
BOOKS:
Novella, Fall 2021
University of Calgary Press
Short Stories. 2012
(NeWest Press)
Novella. 2009
(Recliner Books)
YA Novel. 2010
(Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Novel. 2001
(NeWest Press)
EmbedDed on the Home Front: WHERE MILITARY AND CIVILIAN LIVES CONVERGE
Co-edited by Barb Howard and Joan Dixon, this anthology of essays by 14 Canadian writers explores life on Canada’s military home front. It was the winner of a 2013 CBC Bookie Award and was chosen as a 2013/14 BC Book for BC Schools.
Anthology. 2012
(Heritage House)