REcent NEWS & Publications:
Booktubing (January, 2026): Barb and Booktuber Shawn Breathes Books wrap up their 3rd annual novella reading project. Books discussed: The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars, Old Rendering Plant by Wolfgang Hilbig, Galatea by Madeline Miller, Cheri by Jo Ann Beard, Bartley the Scrivener by Herman Melville, and Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa.
2025 Alberta Magazine Awards - Barb’s Alberta Views essay “The Non-judgmental Judge” was a finalist in the Profile category.
UBC Magazine (digital, Spring 2025): Barb’s story “Walking Jello” was a finalist in the Alumni UBC Short Fiction Contest. Read it here.
WGA publishing panel moderated by Barb
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)