SF Canada member Wes Smiderle recently had his first piece of flash fiction published. “Safebuoys” appears in Flash Fiction Online, the long-running, professionally-paying online monthly magazine specializing in short stories told in 1000 words or fewer.
Wes writes in a variety of genres. His short story “Maisie’s Safehouse” was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing, while his story “Alouette” was nominated for an Aurora Award. His short story “Shriek Season,” published in the 2015 Spring edition of On Spec, is set in a world where families resort to living in hovering ‘mag-rez’ houses to avoid catastrophic weather. Tangent Online called it “a fascinating read.”
Smiderle is a former reporter and editor and has written for daily and weekly newspapers. His three-part feature on youth mental health earned an Ontario Community Newspaper Award. He is currently working on a novelization of “Shriek Season.”
He lives and writes in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Amanda, and their three children, Gwendolyn, Samuel and Griffin.