REcent NEWS & Publications:
Good News! “Walking Jello” is a finalist for the Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story. Winner to be announced at the Alberta Literary Awards on June 5, 2026. Read the story here.
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, and come back in the fall to hear the highly opinionated discussion.
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.
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)