Shorts
Short Fiction
“Summiting.” Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature. Online. September 2024, Read it here.
“Game Day” — a micro story printed on cans of Blindman Brewing’s Coffee Stout 2023/24.
“Life Cycle of a Fly.” NorthWord: A Literary Journal of Canada’s North. 2023.
“Dear Alfah.” Reimagining Fire: The Future of Energy. (anthology) Durvile and UpRoute Books. 2023.
“Vacuuming the Dog” — a 2022 reading by Shawn the Book Maniac of this story from Barb’s 2012 collection Western Taxidermy. Listen to it here
“Mama Steel” a 2022 short story about an arm-wrestling caregiver. Published in chapbook format by Loft on Eighth as the final story in the Long Lunch Quick Reads Series.
“Bigfoot Therapy” — a reprint of this short story about a cyclist’s rejuvenating holiday with Bigfoot — is in (M)othering (Inanna Publications, 2022, eds. Anne Sorbie and Heidi Grogan). Listen to Barb reading an excerpt of Bigfoot Therapy on Facebook on The INDIE YYC here. Or read the full story here
“Fee Fie Foh Fum” a 2021 short story about cross-country skiing and high school revenge. Published as part of the Chinook Blast YYC chapbook series. Available for $8 at radicalbookshop
“Ski Day” — a micro story printed on cans of Blindman Brewing’s Super Stout Winter (2021) Session as part of a CKUA fundraiser. CKUA radio version here
“Stowaway” — appeared in the summer of 2020 on cans of Blindman Brewing’s Super Session Ale. CKUA’s broadcast of the story is available here. And the story is also available in the 1-minute category from the Calgary Central Library’s story dispenser (and also here)
“Stupid” — a 3-minute story available from Sept 10, 2019 in the Calgary Central Library’s short story dispenser (and also here) And also available in the 2020 Loft 112 anthology TapPressRead 1-3-5.
"A Young Male Ski Instructor Tries to Organize a Ladies' Ski Day." Points in Case. February 9, 2018. (read it here)
“Bigfoot Therapy.” Broken Pencil. November 21, 2017. Reprinted in 2022 in (M)othering anthology. (read story here or listen to an excerpt here.)
"Saturday Afternoon at the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, 1977." The 2016 Long Lunch/Quick Reads Anthology. 29-35.
"MVP." National Voices 2016. 6-9.
"Fly Me To the Moon." Grain. 42.3 (Spring 2015): 105-111.
"Western Taxidermy." Belletrista. May/June 2012. read story here
"Basic Obedience." The New Quarterly. 121 (Winter 2012): 116-120.
"Breaking the Mould." FreeFall Magazine. XXI:2 (2011): 7-14.
"Eulogy for the Feminist Movement." Other Voices. 24:1 (Fall 2011): 131-138.
"Still Making Time." Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature. 56 (Fall 2011): 36-41.
"Mrs. Goodfellow’s Dog." Grain. 35:4 (Spring 2008): 55-62.
"Western Taxidermy." AlbertaViews. November 2007: 45-48. (contest finalist)
"Big Fork Campground." The Dalhousie Review. 87.2 (Summer 2007): 267 - 274.
"Breakfast with Tommy." (excerpt from novel-in-progress) Rags: Southern Alberta's Journal of Creative Writing. VII:1 (2006): 35-39.
"Lost and Found. (Part II)." Freefall. XV1:1 (2006): 32.
"The Magnetic Resonance of Hazel the Hamster." Other Voices. 18.1 (2005): 100-102.
"Lost and Found (Part I)." FreeFall. XV:2 (2005): 20.
"My Brother's Shit-kickers." AlbertaViews. January / February 2003: 62-66. (contest winner)
"Patchwork." Alberta Anthology. CBC Radio Alberta, aired 2001.
An excerpt from "Whipstock." dANDelion. 27.1 (2001): 120-136.
An excerpt from "Whipstock." Room of One's Own. 23:3 (2001): 64-75.
"Stanley's Wish." Yalobusha Review. V (1999): 76-88.
"Janet's Portfolio." Alberta Anthology. CBC Radio Alberta, aired 1999.
"Deliverance." Alberta Anthology. CBC Radio Alberta, aired 1998.
"Buckaroo Drive-thru." Other Voices. 10.2 (1997): 71-80.
"Sex Life of the Honey Bee." Contemporary Verse 2. 20.2 (1997): 31-33.
"The Blue Hooker." Room of One's Own. 20.1 (1997): 3-10.
"Urban Pest." blue buffalo. 14.2 (1996): 17-19.
"Advent." FreeFall. VI.1 (1996): 5-7.
"Fetid Cheese." Write Angles. Special Edition, 26.11 (1995): 194. (contest winner)
"Apiary." Canadian Lawyer. June (1995): 12-14. (contest winner)
"Whiskey Jack Sandwiches." blue buffalo. 11.2 (1993): 14-15.
"Lunch at Numa." FreeFall. III.2 (1993): 5-7.
Anthologies
“Dear Alfah.” in Reimagining Fire: The Future of Energy. Durvile &Uproute Books. (2023): 85-95.
“Bigfoot Therapy.” in (M)othering in Inanna Publications, eds. Anne Sorbie and Heidi Grogan (2022). 127-131. Listen to an excerpt of Bigfoot Therapy on The INDIE YYC here. Or read the full story here
“The Unicycle in My Basement.” in WonderShift: Stories of Transformation and Change. The Alexandra Writers Centre 40th Anniversary anthology (2021): 79-83.
"Saturday Afternoon at the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, 1977." The 2016 Long Lunch/Quick Reads Anthology. 29-35. And part of the Print(ed) Word project on permanent display on the 4th floor of the Calgary Central Library. Print(ed) Word | Documentary, Part 1 - YouTube
"The Day the Grandmas Babysat." in Howling at the Harvest Moon. Winner of the Prairie Anthology Writing Competition. Camrose: Five Coyote Ink (2005): 22-30.
"Advent." Taking Off the Tinsel. Ed. Gibbs, Levan and Edwards. Edmonton: Rowan (1996): 12-17.
Collaborations
The Simple Grace of Cowboy Yoga. Daphne Bashford with Barb Howard. Calgary: PiscoPress, 2004
Non-Fiction Articles
“The Non-judgemental Judge.” Alberta Views Magazine, December 2024: 33-36.
“The Novella.” WestWord Magazine. 44.1 (2024): 11-12.
“Literary Judgments: Doing More Harm Than Good?” The Green Bag: An Entertaining Journal of Law. Washington, DC, Winter 2019:125-136. (read it here)
“Justice for None.” Alberta Views Magazine, December 2018: 32-37. justice
"In the Matter of My Law Degree." bioStories Magazine, June 2017, online, page 132. law
"The Reservist." Embedded on the Military Home Front: Where Military and Civilian Lives Converge. Victoria: Heritage House, 2012: 81-90.
"The Reservist." Alberta Views Magazine, November 2010: 44-47.
"Get Chillactive: 9 Tips to Get Active Outdoors with your Teenager." Impact Magazine, November/December 2010: 38-40.
"An Apple for the School-basher." Globe and Mail. Facts and Arguments. February 2, 2006.
