Lorette studied for her Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario. Today she writes mostly small fictions and prose poetry, usually about art, and sometimes about food. She merged her passions for art, art history, poetry, and writing when she founded The Ekphrastic Review, the premier journal of ekphrasis, in 2015. She teaches creative writing and art appreciation in a variety of settings, and has been also been a guest workshop leader for numerous writing groups, universities, literary festivals, and beyond.
Education:
Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism, Ryerson University
Editor: The Ekphrastic Review: a journal of literature inspired by visual art
Column: Eat. Play. Rove., Good Food Revolution
past: Wine and Art, Good Food Revolution
Writing Nominations and Awards
4 Pushcart Prize nominations
4 Best of the Net nominations
1 Best American Food Writing nomination
3 Best Small Fictions nominations
3 Best Microfiction nominations
First place, "The Neon Raven," flash fiction, MacQueen's Quinterly contest, October 2020
Best Small Fictions 2023, "The Triaminic Man," published in and nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Education:
Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism, Ryerson University
Editor: The Ekphrastic Review: a journal of literature inspired by visual art
Column: Eat. Play. Rove., Good Food Revolution
past: Wine and Art, Good Food Revolution
Writing Nominations and Awards
4 Pushcart Prize nominations
4 Best of the Net nominations
1 Best American Food Writing nomination
3 Best Small Fictions nominations
3 Best Microfiction nominations
First place, "The Neon Raven," flash fiction, MacQueen's Quinterly contest, October 2020
Best Small Fictions 2023, "The Triaminic Man," published in and nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Books
Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction
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Creative Nonfiction
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Poetry
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Anthologies (contributor)
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Visual Art, with Other Writers
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Short Fiction
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Editor, Anthologies
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Online or Digital Publications
36 Views of Ononta'kahrhon, Art Nectar, ArtAscent, A Quiet Courage, A Story in 100 Words, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Bending Genres, Axon (Australia), Bird Seed, Black Coffee Review, Black Napkin Press, Blacktop Passages, Blue Pepper, Book Slut, The Breath, Brick Book Reviews, Bright Flash Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Broken City Magazine, Cabinet of Heed, Cahoots Magazine, Canada Free Press, Canoe.ca, Cargo Literary, City River Tree, Cleaver Magazine, Club Plum, Communicators League (Nigeria), Cultural Weekly Los Angeles, Degenerate Literature, The Dillydoun Review, The Disappointed Housewife, Donut Factory, Dropout Literary Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Eunoia Review, Everyday Fiction, Everyday Poetry, Fatal Flaw, Feed Magazine, Flash Boulevard, Flash Fiction Friday, Flash Fiction North, Free the Animal, Free Flash Fiction, Ghost Parachute, Good Food Revolution, Gremolata, Gyroscope, Halfway Down the Stairs, Heart of Flesh, Hole in the Head Review, HOOD, Idea Museum, Idea Factory, Indelible (Dubai), Ilanot Review (Israel), Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees, JMWW, Journal of Radical Wonder, KYSO Flash, Land Luck Journal, Litro, LossLit, MacQueen's Quinterly, the Mantle, Microfiction Mondays Magazine, the Miramichi Reader, Misfit Magazine, Mood Disorders Association of Ontario, New Flash Fiction Review, New World Writing, Nine Muses Poetry, Open Book Toronto, Out Impact, Pacific Poetry, Paleo Garden, Page and Spine, Patheos, Peacock Journal, Plane Tree Journal, Poetry Canada, Poetry Reviews, the Poet's Haven, Poetry Pacific, Potato Soup Journal, Pound of Flash, Queen of Cups, Red Coral Grotto, Red Eft, Rune Bear Weekly, Rye Whiskey Review, Scapegoat Journal, Six Sentences, Sledgehammer, South Florida Poetry Journal, South Shore Review, Star 82, Sublime Rush Magazine, Taxicab Mag, Thimble, Today’s Toronto, Touched By Fire, Toronto Psychotherapist, Trampset, Trouvaille Review, Unbroken Journal, Unlikely Stories, United Church’s Wonder Café, Unreasonable Faith, Uppagaus, Visitant Lit, Voice and Verse (Hong Kong), Wild Word, Women Can Do Anything, Working Ergonomics, Workman Arts Ledger
Print Publications
Academy Magazine, About Such Things, Adbusters, Amber, American Poets and Poetry, Anthology, Aphrodite Gone Berserk, Arachne, The Archer, ArtAscent, Backspace, Bad Monkey, Black Cat 115, Blood and Aphorisms, Brownstone Review, Calliope, Canadian Woman’s Studies Journal, Caffeine, Canadian Baptist, Candlelight Poetry Journal, Canned Phlegm, the Complete Woman, Compost Newsletter, The Conscience, The Core, Damaged Goods, Decision Magazine, Diviners, Dog Fancy, Donut Factory, Dusk Till Dawn, Dwan, Even the Kitchen Sink, Erbacce, Eye Weekly, Ever Dancing Muse, the Eyeopener, the Fiddlehead, Filling Station, Fledgling, Fox Poetry Box, Geez Magazine, Gotta Write, Grain Magazine, Hecate’s Loom, Hook and Ladder, illiterature: a journal of found poetry, I Love Cats, In Hell’s Belly, Ink Magazine, In Q Magazine, Jones Avenue, Kairos, Labour of Love, Listen Magazine, Listening Eye, Love Never Fails, Maelstrom Journal, Main Street Rag, McClung’s Magazine, Melting Trees Review, Mind Purge, Minus Tides Magazine, Modern Poetry, Muse of Fire, Nada, Niagara Advance, Ninth Wave, Novella, Oh! Magazine, off our backs, Other Voices, the Outreach, the Outrider, Papyrus, the People’s Poet, Phoebe, Poet’s Page, Poetry Motel, Prairie Winds, Procreation, Q-Age, Quarry Magazine, the Quilliad, Quota, Rattle, Red Booth Review, Rhig Magazine, the Ryersonian, Sidewalks, Siren: Toronto’s Lesbian Newspaper, Siren: a Vancouver Arts Journal, Slinky, Spillway, Still Starving, Stovepipe, Syncopated City, Teen Quest, Tight, Time For Rhyme, Transforum, Transition, Twilight Ending, untethered, Urban Graffiti, Venue Magazine, Voice and Verse Poetry (Hong Kong), What a Magazine!, Whatever Vaughan Magazine, White Wall Review, Writer’s Journal, Writer’s Ink, Write On, Writing For Our Lives, Wyrd, X-tra Newspaper, Yet Another Small Magazine, Young Ambassador, Zygote
Anthologies
Around the World: Landscapes and Cityscapes, edited by Steve Carr, Sweetycat Books
Burning Ambitions: the Anthology of Short-Shorts, Rush Hour Revisions, edited by Debbie James
The Cold Floors of Unkindness, edited by Betsy Mars, Kingly Street Press
Earth Hymn, edited by Clare MacQueen, KYSO Flash Editions
Group of Seven Reimagined, Heritage House Editions, edited by Karen Schauber
Is It Hot In Here or Is It Just Me?, edited by Janette Schafer, Beautiful Cadaver Projects
Listening to the Birth of Crystals, the People's Poet Publishing
Love Like Salt, edited by Amy Byrne, Like This Press
On the Fly: Stories in Eight Minutes or Less , Lit Star Collective, intro by Ariel Gore
The People's Poet Anthology 2, the People's Poet Publishing
Pixie Dust and All Things Magical, edited by Anita Nahal, AuthorsPress
The Plague Papers, edited by Robbi Nester (Poemeleon Journal)
Shift: Positions- Thoughts on the Future of Design, OCAD Student Press, intro by Ed Burtynsky
Stained, edited by Rachel Neve Midbar, pending
Storm Cycle, edited by A.J. Huffman and April Salzano, Kind of a Hurricane Press,
Take My Word For It, edited by Ingrid Shelton, David C. Cook Publishing
This Will Only Take a Minute: Canadian Flash Fiction, edited by Bruce Meyer and Michael Mirolla, Guernica Editions
Unsheathed, edited by Betsy Mars, Kingly Street Press
Ventriloquy: Pandemic Evolution, Sheila Na Gig Editions
Prizes
First place, "The Neon Raven," flash fiction, MacQueen's Quinterly contest, October 2020
Best Small Fictions 2023, "The Triaminic Man," published in and nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Nominations
Best Microfiction, "The Rope Artist," nominated by The Ilanot Review
Best Microfiction, "Darker," nominated by Flash Boulevard
Best Microfiction, "The Bird Man," nominated by Flash Boulevard
Best Small Fictions, "Chickens, Chickens, Everywhere," nominated by Flash Boulevard
Best Small Fictions, "The Triaminic Man," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Best Small Fictions, "Clean," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Best of the Net, "Blood," nominated by Litro
Best of the Net, "Fresh Strawberries," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly, finalist
Best of the Net, "August and Everything Before," nominated by Pound of Flash, Kind of a Hurricane Press
Pushcart Prize, "The Divine Leper," nominated by Bright Flash Review
Pushcart Prize, "Promiscuity," nominated by Macqueen's Quinterly
Pushcart Prize, "The Paper Dark," nominated by Karen Schauber, editor, The Group of Seven Reimagined (Heritage Books)
Pushcart Prize, "Fresh Strawberries," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
36 Views of Ononta'kahrhon, Art Nectar, ArtAscent, A Quiet Courage, A Story in 100 Words, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Bending Genres, Axon (Australia), Bird Seed, Black Coffee Review, Black Napkin Press, Blacktop Passages, Blue Pepper, Book Slut, The Breath, Brick Book Reviews, Bright Flash Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Broken City Magazine, Cabinet of Heed, Cahoots Magazine, Canada Free Press, Canoe.ca, Cargo Literary, City River Tree, Cleaver Magazine, Club Plum, Communicators League (Nigeria), Cultural Weekly Los Angeles, Degenerate Literature, The Dillydoun Review, The Disappointed Housewife, Donut Factory, Dropout Literary Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Eunoia Review, Everyday Fiction, Everyday Poetry, Fatal Flaw, Feed Magazine, Flash Boulevard, Flash Fiction Friday, Flash Fiction North, Free the Animal, Free Flash Fiction, Ghost Parachute, Good Food Revolution, Gremolata, Gyroscope, Halfway Down the Stairs, Heart of Flesh, Hole in the Head Review, HOOD, Idea Museum, Idea Factory, Indelible (Dubai), Ilanot Review (Israel), Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees, JMWW, Journal of Radical Wonder, KYSO Flash, Land Luck Journal, Litro, LossLit, MacQueen's Quinterly, the Mantle, Microfiction Mondays Magazine, the Miramichi Reader, Misfit Magazine, Mood Disorders Association of Ontario, New Flash Fiction Review, New World Writing, Nine Muses Poetry, Open Book Toronto, Out Impact, Pacific Poetry, Paleo Garden, Page and Spine, Patheos, Peacock Journal, Plane Tree Journal, Poetry Canada, Poetry Reviews, the Poet's Haven, Poetry Pacific, Potato Soup Journal, Pound of Flash, Queen of Cups, Red Coral Grotto, Red Eft, Rune Bear Weekly, Rye Whiskey Review, Scapegoat Journal, Six Sentences, Sledgehammer, South Florida Poetry Journal, South Shore Review, Star 82, Sublime Rush Magazine, Taxicab Mag, Thimble, Today’s Toronto, Touched By Fire, Toronto Psychotherapist, Trampset, Trouvaille Review, Unbroken Journal, Unlikely Stories, United Church’s Wonder Café, Unreasonable Faith, Uppagaus, Visitant Lit, Voice and Verse (Hong Kong), Wild Word, Women Can Do Anything, Working Ergonomics, Workman Arts Ledger
Print Publications
Academy Magazine, About Such Things, Adbusters, Amber, American Poets and Poetry, Anthology, Aphrodite Gone Berserk, Arachne, The Archer, ArtAscent, Backspace, Bad Monkey, Black Cat 115, Blood and Aphorisms, Brownstone Review, Calliope, Canadian Woman’s Studies Journal, Caffeine, Canadian Baptist, Candlelight Poetry Journal, Canned Phlegm, the Complete Woman, Compost Newsletter, The Conscience, The Core, Damaged Goods, Decision Magazine, Diviners, Dog Fancy, Donut Factory, Dusk Till Dawn, Dwan, Even the Kitchen Sink, Erbacce, Eye Weekly, Ever Dancing Muse, the Eyeopener, the Fiddlehead, Filling Station, Fledgling, Fox Poetry Box, Geez Magazine, Gotta Write, Grain Magazine, Hecate’s Loom, Hook and Ladder, illiterature: a journal of found poetry, I Love Cats, In Hell’s Belly, Ink Magazine, In Q Magazine, Jones Avenue, Kairos, Labour of Love, Listen Magazine, Listening Eye, Love Never Fails, Maelstrom Journal, Main Street Rag, McClung’s Magazine, Melting Trees Review, Mind Purge, Minus Tides Magazine, Modern Poetry, Muse of Fire, Nada, Niagara Advance, Ninth Wave, Novella, Oh! Magazine, off our backs, Other Voices, the Outreach, the Outrider, Papyrus, the People’s Poet, Phoebe, Poet’s Page, Poetry Motel, Prairie Winds, Procreation, Q-Age, Quarry Magazine, the Quilliad, Quota, Rattle, Red Booth Review, Rhig Magazine, the Ryersonian, Sidewalks, Siren: Toronto’s Lesbian Newspaper, Siren: a Vancouver Arts Journal, Slinky, Spillway, Still Starving, Stovepipe, Syncopated City, Teen Quest, Tight, Time For Rhyme, Transforum, Transition, Twilight Ending, untethered, Urban Graffiti, Venue Magazine, Voice and Verse Poetry (Hong Kong), What a Magazine!, Whatever Vaughan Magazine, White Wall Review, Writer’s Journal, Writer’s Ink, Write On, Writing For Our Lives, Wyrd, X-tra Newspaper, Yet Another Small Magazine, Young Ambassador, Zygote
Anthologies
Around the World: Landscapes and Cityscapes, edited by Steve Carr, Sweetycat Books
Burning Ambitions: the Anthology of Short-Shorts, Rush Hour Revisions, edited by Debbie James
The Cold Floors of Unkindness, edited by Betsy Mars, Kingly Street Press
Earth Hymn, edited by Clare MacQueen, KYSO Flash Editions
Group of Seven Reimagined, Heritage House Editions, edited by Karen Schauber
Is It Hot In Here or Is It Just Me?, edited by Janette Schafer, Beautiful Cadaver Projects
Listening to the Birth of Crystals, the People's Poet Publishing
Love Like Salt, edited by Amy Byrne, Like This Press
On the Fly: Stories in Eight Minutes or Less , Lit Star Collective, intro by Ariel Gore
The People's Poet Anthology 2, the People's Poet Publishing
Pixie Dust and All Things Magical, edited by Anita Nahal, AuthorsPress
The Plague Papers, edited by Robbi Nester (Poemeleon Journal)
Shift: Positions- Thoughts on the Future of Design, OCAD Student Press, intro by Ed Burtynsky
Stained, edited by Rachel Neve Midbar, pending
Storm Cycle, edited by A.J. Huffman and April Salzano, Kind of a Hurricane Press,
Take My Word For It, edited by Ingrid Shelton, David C. Cook Publishing
This Will Only Take a Minute: Canadian Flash Fiction, edited by Bruce Meyer and Michael Mirolla, Guernica Editions
Unsheathed, edited by Betsy Mars, Kingly Street Press
Ventriloquy: Pandemic Evolution, Sheila Na Gig Editions
Prizes
First place, "The Neon Raven," flash fiction, MacQueen's Quinterly contest, October 2020
Best Small Fictions 2023, "The Triaminic Man," published in and nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Nominations
Best Microfiction, "The Rope Artist," nominated by The Ilanot Review
Best Microfiction, "Darker," nominated by Flash Boulevard
Best Microfiction, "The Bird Man," nominated by Flash Boulevard
Best Small Fictions, "Chickens, Chickens, Everywhere," nominated by Flash Boulevard
Best Small Fictions, "The Triaminic Man," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Best Small Fictions, "Clean," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Best of the Net, "Blood," nominated by Litro
Best of the Net, "Fresh Strawberries," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly, finalist
Best of the Net, "August and Everything Before," nominated by Pound of Flash, Kind of a Hurricane Press
Pushcart Prize, "The Divine Leper," nominated by Bright Flash Review
Pushcart Prize, "Promiscuity," nominated by Macqueen's Quinterly
Pushcart Prize, "The Paper Dark," nominated by Karen Schauber, editor, The Group of Seven Reimagined (Heritage Books)
Pushcart Prize, "Fresh Strawberries," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly