Creative Writing Publications:

• “florals of leggos”, LEAF Journal, Issue 9, March 26th, 20

  https://leafjournal.io/leaf-issue-nine-has-arrived/

• “commentary”, smols, Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, on on Feb. 25, 2026 

https://smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/commentary-reduced-to-thumbs-up-shannon.html 

• “black beauty racing”, Asahi Haikuist Network, on Feb. 20, 2026

Selected for publishing in David McMurray’s newspaper column, contributing to the theme: overworking.

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16358028

• “pristine kokedama”, Asahi Shimbun digital newspaper site, September 5, 2025

One haiku was included after being written specifically for the newspaper's monthly prompt fleetingness.

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16006066

• Whispers of the Seasons: A Contemporary Haiku Anthology, Edited by Som C, August 2025

Three haiku of mine were included in a one page spread in the sixty page book.

https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/special-anthologies

• “I waited until”, Asahi Shimbun digital newspaper site, August 29th, 2025

One haiku was included after being written specifically for the newspaper's monthly prompt of: humility. 

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/15992145

• Two untitled haiku, International EJCA Spring Haiku Contest 2025, Edmonton Japanese Community Association, pages 314 to 315, August 2025

The association included two of my haiku entries in their interactive audio/visual recording database where there are options for the haiku to be read aloud. There is also a text-based anthology.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16fIJEf87SuKB3c0JF-AEII35VQRbk17i/view

https://ejca.haiku.spot/

• “powdery snow”, Seashores: an international journal to share the spirit of haiku, Volume 14, The Fishing Cat Press, page 113, April 2025

• “spring mists”, International EJCA Spring Haiku Contest 2024, Edmonton Japanese Community Association, page 145, August 2024

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f85zcSvJUK7acu-PAVbOu6nam28EdZxS/view

• “Watering Cat”, MOONBEAMS AND MARSHMALLOW DREAMS: A Collection of Poems for Children, Anthology organized by Kim van Breda, July 23 2024

https://a.co/d/6eWG7Pz

• Microprose piece “Glangel” was longlisted in the 2024 Spring Short Competition hosted by The Prose Poem. 

• “Mythopoetics of Hanno Verde Monet” the engine(idling Journal, Issue 2, March 2024

https://www.engineidling.net/issue-2/shannon-wallace-mythopoetics

• “Good Catholic Girl”, “Recovering Devout”, Ache: The Body's Experience of Religion Paperback, Flipped Mittens Press, March 16, 2024

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999570021

• Assorted Haikus featured, Swirling Sakura Haiku Challenge 2023 Booklet, Consulate-General of Japan in Toronto, 2023

https://www.toronto.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/11_000001_00436.html

https://www.toronto.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/files/100510489.pdf

Several haiku about the sakura trees in Toronto were featured in this project.

• “The Skin-Eater”, SHHH! BREATHE SLOW! An Anthology of One-Minute Horror Plays, Volume 1, 2023

'SHHH! BREATHE SLOW! vol 1 (4).pdf - Google Drive

This piece was inspired by Waiting for Godot. I wanted to try something new with a mystery without answers between only two characters, one of them being a tree.

• “Untitled”, The 5-7-5 Journal, 2023

Haiku by Shannon King – 5-7-5 Haiku Journal

Haiku by Shannon King – 5-7-5 Haiku Journal

Haiku by Shannon King – 5-7-5 Haiku Journal

• “Found Romance,” #Ranger, Issue One, 2023

Ranger magazine

“Carrying Burdens,” by Shannon King | The Typescript

“Floridian Potential (Poem and photography series),” Coming of Age in Florida: An Anthology of Words and Images, Florida Roots Press, August 2022

https://www.amazon.ca/Coming-Age-Florida-Anthology-Images/dp/B0B8X7NRLB

 My work reflected on being born in. Florida but not growing up there and the effects that has on identity building, and retethering to the environment during youth.

"Ode to Bee” Slate Vol V, UTM Scribes, 2020 April

https://scribes.gumroad.com/l/slate-v?layout=profile

“Sephora Synergy” Bombuss Press, 2019

https://www.bombuspress.com/shannonbuzza

My short horror story was published in this student-lead quarterly literary journal. My story utilizes kitsch cliches while giving the setting of the pristine makeup store where beauty awaits.

“Mortal Future,” “Intellectual Wishes” Technophilia: A Transhumanist Zine Issue #2, 2017

https://brainvomit.tumblr.com/post/158212457348/technophilia-a-transhumanist-zine-issue-2-2017/amp

Two poems were featured on a one page spread in this issue of the zine. My poems contrasted organic imagery with computer-based imagery to reflect upon what the future holds in an increasingly digitized and mechanic world.

• “Transhumanism“ Technophilia: A Transhumanist Zine, Issue #1, 2017

https://brainvomit.tumblr.com/post/150274980386/technophilia-a-transhumanist-zine-issue-1-2016/amp

a poem about the thinning line between body and machine.

• “Untitled” STATIC ZINE, Issue 14, October 2016

https://www.etsy.com/shop/staticcloud/?etsrc=sdt

Art Publications and Shows:

• [UPCOMING] “Airy Editing Series”, Abstract Mind 2026: The 11th International Exhibition on Abstract Art, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, South Korea, April 15 – May 3, 2026

Four digital photographs were abstracted, glitched and processed until unrecognizable. In these works, the artist's touch is felt through changing settings, dials and buttons in the software.

• One night solo pop-up show of 6 mixed-media pieces, The Toronto Pancakes and Booze Art Show, Revival, Toronto, November 28th, 2025

• Group/Techpressionist experimental collaboration, Compost^ Pavilion, 7th Edition of The Wrong Biennale, Online, November 1st, 2025 to March 2026

https://www.ricardobodini.com/compost

https://thewrong.org

There is a mixed-media collage made from collaboration from the collective discarded AI images accumulated from teamwork are printed into a 3D sticker format, recycled physical paper/plastic material, glued onto a found cardboard sheet. A short series of micro glitchy haiku reflecting on the presence or absence of a real presence found in the AI.

• “FAWN FOR THE CITY” and “COMPLACENT CITIZENS WON'T REVOLT”, Art Circuit, The Patterns Show, Back Alley Gallery, Hamilton, Canada, October 3rd to November 15th

609 people attended the opening night at the Hamilton Art Circuit.

• “He's been on the island”, mixed media collage/visual poem, Big Orange Monster: An Emergency Collage Exhibition, Kolaj Institute, New Orleans, USA, 10 September – 18 October 2025

Group exhibition reflecting on censorship, deflection and scapegoating surrounding public information access.

• “Feeling Blue from the Window”, FEELIN' BLUE Show, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, July 17 to August 5, 2025

A monochromatic mixed media collage, which utilized watercolour and marker drawing, had a central positioning in the show. A landscape of blue disorients the senses and the interpretation of the setting.

“FAWN FOR THE CITY” and “COMPLACENT CITIZENS WON'T REVOLT”, ECO ART SHOW, Gallery 1313, Toronto, June 2025

• “The Path”, Small Pleasures: A Small Works Show, Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, March 5 to 23, 2025

This exhibit only showed pieces smaller than 16 x 16. My first abstract acrylic painting I made in years was incorporated into the show.

• “Fragments of a Floating World”, Keeping Dreams Exhibit, Dignam Gallery (Women's Art Association of Canada), Toronto, February 27 to March 22, 2025

This mixed media collage included vintage and new media combined into one otherworldly and dreamy piece. It included duct tape, a ukiyo-e print, graph paper and construction paper.

• “I'M SO IN”, THE SEX SHOW, Gallery 1313, Toronto, February 2025

A mixed media collage using watercolour, found text and archival images of cannons and seashells was included in this show. The piece focused on suggestion and atmosphere created by shapes and tension

• “A touch of Gloveliness”, Ongoing Exhibit, Korean – Canadian Young Artists Exchange Exhibition, OIS Art of Canada, Dignam Gallery (Women's Art Association of Canada), October 9 to 22, 2024

A wearable sculpture made out of blue medical gloves was included in this exhibit which focused on intercultural arts exchange between Korean and Canadian artists.

• "Trying to Make a New Friend in the Hoarder House" MAKING ROOM, handmade zine by Gnashing Teeth Publishing, June 2024

A digital drawing was included in this limited edition hand-sewn zine.

• Several anonymous works, 6x6x2024 Exhibit, The International Small Art Phenomenon, (Rochester Contemporary Art Center), June 2022

https://roco6x6.org/ This show has celebrity artists alongside unknown artists, amateurs, children and students to allow the work speak for itself and be detached from name-branding or the value-seeking that comes from certain art collectors.

• “Ikebana”, FLORAL & BOTANICAL – 3 Contest/Exhibit, Gallery 4%, May 2024

• "City City City", Contemporary Landscapes Exhibition, Gallery Omnibus, Dresden, Germany, May 15 - June 15, 2024

• Various Pieces, Abstract Exhibition, Part Crowd Art Gallery, March 1, 2024, to April 21, 2024

https://www.partcrowd.com/abstract

• “Ikebana”, Glitch.art.br International Online Exhibition, December 2023

This was my first time to have my art shown in Brazil and in South America. This exhibition showed so many artists who were likewise captivated by how glitches impact the storage and creation of art.

“Untitled”, Litbop: Art and Literature in the Groove: Volume One ° Number Three

https://www.amazon.ca/Litbop-Literature-Groove-Number-Three-ebook/dp/B0CQ5VYBN2

• “Wheel of The Dead”, Life, Death, Love Exhibit, Art Collide, October 2023

https://art-collide.com/life-death-love-2023 [website expired] 

My collage piece "Wheel of The Dead" was featured as a finalist in this contest. This piece had been originally made for a class in Tibetan architecture history.

• “Ikebana”, Contemporary Aesthetics exhibit, Aedra Fine Arts, October 2023

www.aedrafinearts.com/ [website currently appears out of service] 

• "That River Where That Foot Was Found", NON-REPRESENTATIONAL & UNREAL exhibit, Gallery 4%, September 2023

won Laurel Award in the 1st Abstract Art Contest

• “Untitled (Series of Two),” #Ranger, Issue One, 2023

https://www.rangermagazine.net/king2issue1

https://www.rangermagazine.net/king_issue1

• “Only Blondes Go to Heaven” The Typescript Journal, 2023

  https://thetypescript.com/carrying-burdens-by-shannon-king/

• “Untitled” 6x6x2022, The International Small Art Phenomenon, (Rochester Contemporary Art Center), June 2022

https://roco6x6.org/gallery/2022 

This art show focuses on taking elitism out of the art world by holding an annual charity auction where artists submit 2-dimensional pieces anonymously. I have listed it here for fun. Can you find my piece? :) 

• “Staying Indoors: Portable Agoraphobe” The Space Between Exhibit, Digital Programming at University of Western, November 2021

https://mcintoshgallery.ca/docs/The-Space-Between_WebPub.pdf  

My drawing of a portable house using sharpies and markers was featured in a study by curator Natalie Scola about the images of the home in Canadian art. This drawing is a self portrait, with clothes transformed into a portable house which reflects feelings of isolation and immobility in quarantines.

• “Untitled (COVID Printmaking Series) Curated by Covid: A Digital Gallery, September 2021

https://curatedbycovid.wixsite.com/artwork/all-artwork?pgid=k1rjivwk-79f4ca29-c366-4ed0-920e-7fc5654533d7 

https://curatedbycovid.wixsite.com/artwork/all-artwork?pgid=k1rjivwk-c1629ae9-c5f6-4356-9b1b-c081e82c03cb 

https://curatedbycovid.wixsite.com/artwork/all-artwork?pgid=k1rjivwk-d0928159-fbfc-41d9-bfe1-423d2371a705

https://curatedbycovid.wixsite.com/artwork/all-artwork?pgid=k1rjivwk-89cfaf75-6472-4559-80bf-7d10119f928d

https://curatedbycovid.wixsite.com/artwork/all-artwork?pgid=k1rjivwk-93caf053-d535-4076-9300-a9112a036982 

• BUFF, Sheridan College, 2021

BUFF annually presents the art and art history students at Sheridan College's artwork in a printed book. My first piece included in BUFF is an untitled alcohol ink print with an abstract design where the movement of the inks itself is palpable.

My second piece in BUFF is titled, “Rembrandt Remake” and it is a recreation of a 1646 ink sketch by Rembrandt. My hand made the same movements and shaded in snow in the same manner as an iconic art master from 400 years ago, out of devotion to the craft.

• “Staying Indoors: Portable Agoraphobe” 404-Error Exhibition, Sheridan College Graduation Exhibit, 2021 April

My drawings and photographs of myself wearing a house as clothes was shown on the online exhibit page and on the promotional Instagram page.

• “Liminal” Now Steaming February 2021 (Visual Arts Mississauga Online Gallery)

https://www.visualartsmississauga.com/exhibitions/now-streaming-2021/

This online art show featured artists aged 18-29 years old from Mississauga using a combination of traditional and new media. 

• “SWOON,” and “CRINKLED SKIN,” THE SEX SHOW, Gallery 1313 Toronto, Feb. 2020

I participated in a group exhibition on the themes of sexuality by entering my collages. “SWOON” and “CRINKLED SKIN” is a diptych made from collages of crumpled cardboard (that looks like the creases of skin), opened flowers, women from historical paintings in water and on swings, asteroids, and fire. The culmination of these images and materials considers the small moments that lead to sensuality.

• “Untitled” Etcetera Magazine, Tumblr, 2018

https://etcetezine-blog.tumblr.com/post/171417047598/shannon-buzza

• “Untitled,” Spring Friends of Joshua's Creek Gallery Show, Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, 2017

• “Untitled” GHOST PKMN ZINE , itch.io, 2016

https://lavendera.itch.io/ghost

This Pokemon fanzine was created to fund raise for the organizer's girlfriend to get facial-feminization surgery while also featuring her favourite type of Pokemon.

• “Untitled (Digital Edited Series)” University of Toronto Mississauga STOCK Art Show, Sheridan College Trafalgar, 2015

PRESS

https://hcshohyoran.blogspot.com/2026/03/hcshr-82-mossy-alley.html

https://artoronto.ca/?p=57730

https://artoronto.ca/?p=55099