WRITING

As an award-winning journalist, Cori has travelled around the world telling stories for a wide-variety of international newspapers, magazines, TV and radio networks. From the slums of Rio de Janeiro, to the plight of First Nations foster kids in British Columbia, to the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Cori has written everything from hard news and feature stories to personal essays and memoirs.

Her writing style has educated and entertained readers through thousands of stories.

Versatile and creative, Cori has been published in major publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Real Simple Magazine, Huffington Post, Maclean’s, Chatelaine, Reader’s Digest, Conde Nast Traveler, The Independent, among others. She was a staff reporter for The National Post and spent many years as a producer and reporter for CBC Television and Radio in both Washington, DC and Vancouver. She has lived in Costa Rica and in Chile as a foreign correspondent. And she has published a best-selling anthology Between Interruptions: Thirty Women Tell the Truth about Motherhood, which to this day continues to connect and inspire mothers.

 
  • The Fifth Season: Cori Howard writes about her discovery of a fifth season in many women's lives

    Midstory Magazine

    November, 2023

  • The Missing Middle: Cori Howard finds that it takes more than Marie Kondo and burning sage to transition to an empty nest

    Spirituality & Health Magazine

    May, 2023

  • Fact or Friction: A Pandemic Comes Between Best Friends

    Maisonneuve Magazine
    July, 2022

  • The College Goodbye Redux

    Medium
    July, 2021

  • Why I'm Still Living Under the Same Roof as My Ex-Husband

    Real Simple

    October, 2017

  • Celebrating my Daughter’s Coming of Age

    Washington Post
    October, 2016

  • It’s Not Safe to Run Alone. I Do it Anyway

    Washington Post
    September, 2016

  • It’s a Cow. No, it’s a Goat. Experiments in Farming for City Kids

    Huffington Post Parents
    August, 2012

  • She Isn’t Sexy. She’s Seven

    New York Times Online
    Motherlode
    July, 2012

  • Mixed Emotions: Living in multicultural Canada, I thought interracial marriage was proof race no longer matters. I was wrong

    Chatelaine
    November, 2008

  • Home is a Holiday

    Quail Bell Magazine

    July, 2023

  • Stones

    Quail Bell Magazine

    July, 2023

  • Tinder

    Yellow Arrow Journal

    May, 2023

  • Lilac Longing

    Musing Publications

    April, 2023

  • Unbirthing

    Cordella Review

    April, 2023

  • Threshold

    Discretionary Love

    March, 2023

  • The Children

    The Fieldstone Review

    February, 2023

  • My Life in Food

    Sustenance

    November, 2017

  • Three Poems

    New Critique Journal

    June, 2024

  • The Architecture of Mindfulness

    Montecristo Magazine
    October, 2019

  • The Easy Way to Travel as a Single Parent

    Globe and Mail Travel
    September, 2018

  • A Sliver of Hope

    Reforms have brought prosperity to Burma, but poverty is still the norm for most.
    Maclean’s
    April, 2013

  • Golden Moments: Back on the tourist trail after 20 years

    Yangon offers a new generation a wonderful taste of Myanmar’s culture and history.
    Silkroad Magazine
    January, 2013

  • Inside Canada’s First Breast Milk Bank

    Best Health Magazine
    August, 2010

  • Saving James

    One mother’s quest to change the system of mental health in Canada.
    Today’s Parent
    June, 2009

  • The steep price of becoming a ‘dollar mommy'

    Globe and Mail
    April, 2009

  • His Big, Fat Diet

    An aboriginal community finds a low-carb mix of modern and traditional foods can boost their health.
    Reader’s Digest
    March, 2009

  • Invasion of the nanny snatchers

    Globe and Mail
    July, 2007

  • Vancouver's Group of Five: The Young Romantics

    Five artists, will paint for money: Not for themselves, of course.

    National Post

    February, 2006

  • ISTOCK/ANDREYPOPOV

    An ancient helper for making a baby

    Many parents swear by acupuncture for increased fertility

    Maclean’s Magazine

    January, 2006

  • Stealing Home

    First Nations are taking back children that were fostered out by over-zealous government agencies. But what happens when those children don’t want to go home?
    Vancouver Magazine
    October, 2003
    Winner of Western Magazine Awards

  • Artist Brian Jungen

    The breaking point: Artist Brian Jungen rips consumer items apart and rebuilds them into cultural artifacts. More is broken than plastic lawn chairs

    National Post

    October, 2000

  • Lasqueti Island

    An uneasy truce on the island: Old-timers and dope growers. Both want the island preserved, but in ways that can conflict

    National Post

    August, 2000

  • Plato and poetry for the poor

    An innovative program brings philosophy to the streets

    National Post

    July, 2000

  • Chief Injustice

    Escalating abuse, corruption & mismanagement on First Nations reserves are prompting women to take action.
    Homemaker’s
    April, 2000

  • Jann Arden

    Just your atypical rock 'n' roll babe: At home with the cats: With a new album out next week, the singer muses about success

    National Post

    March, 2000

  • The day $7 million dangled from my ears

    Introducing two glittering Oscar stars

    National Post

    March, 2000

  • Various reportage from Mexico and Brazil

    National Post

    1999 - 2000

  • Isabel Allende Profile

    Cinderella of magic realism: Isabel Allende says time, not critics, will determine the value of her best-selling novels

    National Post

    November, 1999

  • Burning Man Festival

    Extreme art: Creative minds spend a week building a temporary city in the Nevada desert. Then they burn it all down

    National Post

    September, 1999

  • The Grouse Grind: Mother Nature's Stairmaster

    Mother Nature's Stairmaster is pure adrenalin rush: 1,000 sweaty bodies a day: The hike is popular way of keeping in shape, getting a date

    National Post

    August, 1999

  • The life and art of Susan Musgrave

    She may be a prolific poet with 20 books to her name and a nomination for the Governor General's Award, but for the wife of accused bank robber Stephen Reid, it's her life that gets all the attention

    National Post

    August, 1999

  • Poet bill bissett Profile

    Poet bill bissett lives inside his own language -- is it a private world, or can we all share?

    National Post

    July, 1999

  • Wreck Beach: Full Frontal Beach Property

    National Post

    July, 1999

  • Super success -- at a cost

    At age 15, international model Noot Seear's life appears to be the height of glamour. But is there any time for fun when you're wanted on runways in New York, Paris, and Milan?

    National Post

    May, 1999

  • Return of the Exiles: Reporting from Chile

    Going home to a Chile reception: You can and can't go back, Pinochet-era exiles report. Their presence stirs unpleasant memories for those who stayed put. Says Isabel Allende: ``. . . they had to take all the repression and they built this new country and now these people have come to benefit.

    Vancouver Sun

    June, 1998

  • 'Senator-for-Life' Pinochet

    Chileans protest as country’s ex-dictator leaves military post for new role

    San Francisco Chronicle

    March, 1998

  • Dinosaur dictator attains political eternity

    Thousands died or disappeared in Chile under Pinochet's regime, but he won support by creating `elephants in the desert' to bring prosperity. Now he's a senator-for-life.

    Vancouver Sun

    March, 1998

  • Inside Burma: Big Brother and Poverty Rule

    San Francisco Chronicle

    October, 1996

  • Alarm Grows Over Clear-Cutting on Majestic Coast

    San Francisco Chronicle

    November, 1993

  • Costa Rica Selling out to Foreigners

    A wave of foreign investment is wreaking havoc on the country’s traditional economy and agriculture

    San Francisco Chronicle

    August, 1993

  • The Raging Grannies

    Vancouver Sun

    October, 1992

  • Opposing Forces

    Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood.
    McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008

  • The Splitting of Thunder

    Witness to Wilderness.
    Arsenal Pulp Press, 1994