Lynn Easton | Writer
Poems, essays & more
Publications
Forthcoming
My piece ‘Once Upon a Tough Time’ will appear in the forthcoming anthology Beyond Blue: Stories of Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope in Postpartum Depression from Caitlin Press edited by Christina Myers & Oga Nwobosi (October 2025).
Presales on now!
Poems, Essays & Prizes
Publication: “Vanishing Point”, in The Fiddlehead (303), Spring 2025.
Publication: “Deadheading” in Roots & Branches Volume 3, BC Federation of Writers, 2025.
Shortlist: “Deadheading”, BC Federation of Writers 2023 Poetry Prize, December 2023.
Longlist: “I Dry My Mother’s Hair”, BC Federation of Writers 2023 Poetry Prize, December 2023.
Publication: How the Blue Jays helped our family through Dad’s last innings, Globe and Mail First Person, June 2022.
Publication: “Into the Wind” in A Gelato A Day, September 2022. Edited by Claudia Laroye, Guernica Editions.
Publication: “My Fridge Is Full Of Endings,” in Sustenance, October 2017. Edited by Rachel Rose.
Publication & Award: "The Equation" in The Malahat Review, Winner of the Constance Rooke Prize, 2016. (The Malahat Review's 2016 CNF contest Constance Rooke Prize announcement).
Publication: "Nine" in Boobs: Women Explore What It Means to have Breasts, Caitlin Press, 2016. Edited by Ruth Daniell.
Shortlist: "Stickhandling", Room Magazine Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2015.
Shortlist: "A Daughter's List", Briarpatch Magazine Writing in the Margins Contest 2015.
Publication: "Rounding Third" in Emerge 2015, SFU Writer's Studio, 2015. With guest editor Matt Rader and managing editor Janet Fretter.
Finalist, CBC Canada Writes, Hyperlocal Contest, "The Forest Children", 2013.
Publication (as editor and co-author): Maple Ridge Moments in Time, 2000.
Other Published Work
I also work on a wide variety of projects including magazine articles, opinion pieces, content for specialty newspaper publications, plain language projects, media relations and social media for not-for profits.
A few examples:
Early On: Who’s Looking After The Kids? and Early On: You Aren’t Losing Your Baby, regular column on early childhood development in the Maple Ridge News.
Back on the job, WorkSafe Magazine.
"Playing Like a Girl" and "Mansplain Away, Boys" in Skirt Quarterly Magazine.
Achingly flawless at Garibaldi Secondary, Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows News, Opinion.