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”, nominated for a Canadian Online Publishing Award, about a hiking date arranged through an outdoorsy dating app. Canadian Online Publishing award. Read it here (once on the journal site, click on “Barb Howard” and the story title ”Summiting.”)
WestWord Magazine (January 2024): Barb’s essay “The Novella” explores the current state of the genre.
WGA publishing panel moderated by Barb
RECENT MEDIA:
Controversy@Noon: Barb moderates a December 2024 panel for the Writers’ Guild on the topic of Self-Publishing vs Traditional Publishing.
Barb and booktuber “Shawn Breathes Books” Talk Novellas (Part 2 Fall 2024): in this second annual chat Barb and Shawn weigh in on 6 novellas including August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, 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)
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)