Lighting fires

Whether you're starting a company, a book, an artistic practice, or you're building a personal thought leadership profile, I can help you get there.
Everyone has a candle. My job is to hand out matches.

Latest Publications
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The Wax Paper | Vol 4, Issue 14

Three Poems

Three pieces of mine appear in this issue, including one that was previously published in The Literary Review of Canada.

These pieces centre on what it means to be human, and where our systems too often create the conditions that encourage us to be inhuman.

"They don't let you sleep in temples
and you can't die on the step" - page 2

"I know the ice was never thick" - back cover

Sonnet to the Frost

My brother, a teacher in British Columbia, asked me to write a sonnet to help one of his students understand the form. This is the result.

"No—give me a tremor, a troubling hint;
No florid breeze, no imperfect fable;
But a whisper this moment might be it"
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Literary Review of Canada | April 2024
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Gloria Frimpong, “Microscopic” (Issue 9.1, Rappahannock Review)

Balance

My first short story was published in the Rappahannock Review Issue 9.1. ​A science fiction piece that explores what happens when the wrong people hold on to power for too long. You can read the interview as well where I... well, explain myself.

“Limit resources, make the people compete for what’s rightfully theirs, keep them looking left and right instead of up. Zero-sum mindsets in a zero-sum machine.”

Now

Now is a poem about the worlds and experiences that brush shoulders with each other in downtown Toronto. 
And what it takes to wake a dead man.

“beneath the humming rectangle eyes,
the flashing, frantic sky-wide eyes
of the city--
 
that says something quietly.”
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Cover Design by Janus Kwong
For more of my creative writing, click the link below.

LET'S TELL A STORY
Story is humankind's greatest invention. Better than cars (which are just the gas burning punchlines of engineering stories), better than sliced bread (it's embarrassing it makes anyone's list), and better than soccer (all heroes are stories, even the sports ones). Story makes everything that has ever happened, happen. The great and the awful. 
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Stories inspire us, drive us mad, turn us on, and change our minds. Imagine a world in which every authentic human story is shared, explored and celebrated. Welcome to the place where you'll find some of mine. And a place to get help telling yours. I'm humbled you're here.

I have worked with award-winning artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, seasoned leaders, culture builders, organizations small and large, around the world and across nearly every industry.

The thing they have in common: they are all authentic, values-driven, and working to put good in the world. If you're working to do the same, let's do something wonderful together.