In 1977, she returned to Kingston, where she worked at a women's shelter and taught at St. Lawrence College and Queen's.
In a series of letters published in 1994 as Two Women Talking: Correspondence 1985-1987, Wallace and poet Erín Moure discuss feminist theory.
However, Wallace disagreed that language-centred writing rescues women from the patriarchy, claiming that it can be easily co-opted by patriarchs.
In 2021, in response to feedback from the publishing industry and a drafted open letter by MFA candidate and editor Jade Wallace, the RBC Bronwen Wallace for Emerging Writers opened eligibility to poetry and short-fiction submissions from writers of all ages unpublished in book form.
[1] In 1984, Wallace won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for her poetry collection, Signs of the Former Tenant.