Sharon is an award-winning short story writer whose stories deal with the messy business of love, family, and relationships.
She is also the host of Beyond the Page, where she interviews authors in the Comox Valley and beyond. The podcast airs on local radio, DIG FM. You can also listen on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/show/54GPnbKcBNPzxAZ6w6W8iZ?si=083e7bb471e7442c
COMING SOON!
Walking Each Other Home, the story of Sharon’s caregiving journey after her mom was struck with vascular dementia, will be released in April 2026 by BWL Publishing Inc. Early readers have called it “beautifully written, heart wrenching, moving, and filled with humour and insights.”
“With unflinching honesty, Sharon McInnes reveals not only the grief and stress involved in caring for her mother, but also the brilliant and unexpected rewards. I’m so grateful for her depiction of the beautiful parts of caregiving — shared intimacy, deep love, laughter and silliness even in the midst of tragedy. And I’m just as grateful for her frankness about rage, despair and cleaning up poop. Walking Each Other Home is a comfort and inspiration for anyone involved in the life-changing work of caregiving.” Sarah Leavitt, author of Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love.
SHORT STORIES
“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 is scheduled to be published in The New Quarterly in the Fall 2025 or Spring 2026 edition.
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 
Lovely website ! Good luck with the new book!! Looks amazing
Alan Hill – Poet Laureate – City of New Westminster
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Thanks so much Alan!
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Nice site. I loved your poem today on QBF. Happy birding.
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Thanks, Roger Moore!
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Love your poem. Short, sweet and evocative.
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Thanks Tessie!
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