Sharon’s award-winning short fiction has been (or is scheduled to be published soon) in The New Quarterly, Sea and Cedar Magazine, Island Writer, and several anthologies, and two stories have been made into podcasts. More are on the way …
“THE FAMILY NEXT DOOR” was published in Sea and Cedar Magazine, Fall edition, 2024. Read it on page 112 at: https://www.flipsnack.com/viregionallibrary/sea-cedar-fall-2024-edition/full-view.html
“THROUGH THE FOG” won first place in the fiction category of the 2024 Royal City Literary Arts Society’s Annual Contest. In November 2023, it had been long-listed for the Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction. It will be published in The New Quarterly in January 2026.
In 2023, “THE REDHEAD” won Honourable Mention in the Dave Williamson National Short Story Competition, and was published in the anthology, Beyond Boundaries.
“THE NEIGHBOUR” was shortlisted for the 2020 Federation of BC Writers BC/Yukon Short Fiction Contest, then took second place in the Muskoka Authors Association’s 2020 Melody Richardson Memorial Contest. It was also made into a podcast, renamed “Joe,” for SomeKinda Woman: Stories of Us by Caitlin Hicks and Gord Halloran. Have a listen: https://www.caitlinhicks.com/wordpress/joe-by-guest-author-sharon-mcinnes/
“VARIOUS FUNCTIONS OF FIRE” took first place for fiction in the 2020 Victoria Writers Society Annual Writing Contest. It is included in Island Writer Magazine, vol. 18. It was also made into a podcast by Stories Less Spoken in 2021. Listen here: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xNTMzOTQ2LnJzcw/episode/QnV6enNwcm91dC03MzAwMzAw?sa=X&ved=0CAQQkfYCahcKEwjQuP666ovvAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
“A SYMPHONY of SPARROWS” took second place in Askew’s Word on the Lake Writing Contest. It is included in the anthology, Sorry You’re Not Here, edited by Scott Fitzgerald Gray of the Shuswap Association of Writers, and available on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.ca/Sorry-Youre-Not-Here-Anthology/dp/1777199301
“THE DAVID AND GOLIATH” was published in Island Writer Magazine, vol. 18.
Sharon McInnes 