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 booktuber “Shawn Breathes Books” Talk Novellas (Part 2 Fall 2024): in this second annual chat Barb and Shawn weigh in on Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, SS Proleterka by Fleur Jaggy, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, Child of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima, Animal Farm by George Orwell, and The Pegnitz Junction by Mavis Gallant.
Barb and Shawn from Shawn Breathes Books set up their second annual novella chat (Part 1 Spring 2024)
“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)