REcent NEWS & Publications:
August 2026: Barb’s spoof on Neighbourhood Watch emails appears in Little Old Lady — a comedy magazine founded by “hot” comediennes “with a zero-fucks-given attitude.” Fancy Neighbourhood Watch in Canada — Little Old Lady
Good News! “Walking Jello”, first Published in UBC Magazine, won the 2026 Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story. Read it here.
Excerpt from Juror’s comments:.=
A masterful story which doubles as an absorbing existential riddle, Walking Jello covers a life-sized territory in a very short space … With a foundation of clear-eyed prose, the work is sublimely confident and subtle, trusting the reader to find their way to the mystery at its heart.
Booktubing (May, 2026): Join Barb and booktuber Shawn Breathes Books as they launch their 4th annual novella project. Find out which 6 novellas are on the 2026 menu, read them if you want, and come back in the fall to hear the highly opinionated discussion.
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)