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Monday, March 1, 2010
Sonja Greckol |
Jacob Scheier |
Michael Winter |
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Sonja Greckol's first book, Gravity and Flight, was launched from Inanna
Press, Spring 2009. Her work has appeared in Literary Review of Canada,
Canadian Literature, Dalhousie Review, CV2, Canadian Women's
Studies, Fiddlehead and Matrix. She coordinates poetry for Women and Environments International Magazine and served on the
National Council of the League of Canadian Poets. She has taught college and university, studied order and disorder in jokes, done human rights and gender-based research and consulting, and does local activism while she writes. Her long poem,
"Emilie Explains Newton to Voltaire", was short-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2008.
Her next poetry project, entitled, Skin of the Day, uses newspaper headlines.
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Jacob Scheier is a Toronto born, poet and journalist living in New York
City. His debut poetry collection, More to Keep us Warm, (ECW
Press) won the 2008 Governor General's Award. His poems have
also appeared in several journals and magazines, including Descant and
Geist. Jacob is the former head editor of existere, York
University's Journal of Art and Literature, and is a regular contributor
to the Toronto alternative weekly, Now and the NYC progressive
newspaper The Indypendent. He is currently working on his second
poetry collection, a poetry and prose hybrid exploring his radical, Jewish
American heritage.
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Michael Winter is the author of five works of fiction. His most recent
novel is The Architects are Here. He’s the recipient of the Notable
Author Award from the Writer’s Trust (2008) and won the Winterset
Award for best Newfoundland book. He lives in Toronto and Conception
Bay, Newfoundland.
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Monday, April 5, 2010
Lillian Allen |
Ronna Bloom |
Scott Griffin |
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Lillian Allen has performed her work in many major venues in North America.
Allen won the Juno
Award for Best Reggae/Calypso Album for Revolutionary Tea Party in
1986 and Conditions Critical in 1988. She has performed her work for
television, film, radio, and print media across the world. Lillian is also a
professor of creative writing at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her
books include Psychic Unrest, and
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Ronna Bloom is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, Permiso, (Pedlar Press, 2009.) Her first book, Fear of the Ride ( Carleton University Press, 1996 ) was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry. Personal Effects (Pedlar Press, 2000 ) was recorded by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Public Works ( Pedlar Press, 2004 ) was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award . Her poems have been translated into Spanish and Bangla, and broadcast on CBC Radio. Ronna has led writing workshops across Canada and abroad, and is currently Poet in Community at the University of Toronto. www.ronnabloom.com.
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Scott Griffin is Chairman and founder of The Griffin Trust for
Excellence in Poetry. In addition he is Chairman, Director and majority
shareholder of House of Anansi Press/Groundwood Books. As a Director of
Canadian Executive Services Overseas (CESO), a Volunteer Advisor to CESO
and a Director of African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) Canada,
Griffin devotes a third of his time on this basis. In 2006, he published a
memoir entitled My Heart is Africa about his two-year aviation
adventure throughout that continent. He is also Chancellor of Bishop’s
University, Chairman of the Governors of Sedbergh School and a Director of
DGC Entertainment Ventures Corp. His interests include sailing, skiing,
flying, English literature and travel to remote places. He was born in
Hamilton, Ontario.
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Monday, May 3, 2010
Christian Bök |
David Day |
Ursula Pflug |
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Christian Bök is the author of Eunoia (a work of experimental
literature), which has not only won the Griffin Prize for Poetic
Excellence, but which has also gone on to become an international
bestseller, both in Canada and in the UK. Bök currently works as an
Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary.
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David Day is a poet and author of over 40 books of poetry, ecology, history, fantasy, mythology and fiction. Day's books - for both adults and children - have sold over 4 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 20 languages. He has been an environmental columnist for Britain's Daily Mail, Evening Standard and Punch Magazine. He has also been dramaturge for the Birmingham Royal Ballet, playwright for Toronto Young People's Theatre and written a television series of a hundred programs translated into 18 languages.
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Ursula Pflug is the author of the novel Green Music (Tesseract Books,
2002) and the story collection After The Fires (Tightrope Books,
2008.) An award winning writer of short fiction, she has published over
fifty stories in Canada, the US and the UK. She is a Pushcart, Aurora,
and MK Hunter nominee. She has had her work produced for stage and
film and is also a produced playwright, freelance editor, book reviewer
and creative writing instructor. She is on the board of the Cooked and
Eaten Reading Series in Peterborough, Ontario.
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Monday, June 7, 2010
Lorna Crozier |
Patrick Lane |
Sachiko Murakami
(Photo by Sean Starke) |
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Lorna Crozier’s books have won the Governal General’s, the
Canadian Authors’ Association, and two Pat Lowther Awards for
poetry. She has published fourteen collections, the most recent The Blue Hour
of the Day. She has received two honourary doctorates for her contribution
to Canadian literature, her poems have been translated into several languages,
and she has read her work in every continent except Antarctica. A collection of
essays, Small Beneath the Sky, was published by Greystone Books in
2009. In the same year a Spanish translation of her poems, La Perspectiva del
Gato was published by Trilce Ediciones in Mexico City. Presently she
is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Victoria.
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Oxford University Press published Patrick Lane’s Poems, New and Selected,
which won him the Governor General’s award in 1978. He has been a
writer-in-residence and/or teacher at a number of institutions, including
Concordia University, University of Alberta, University of Toronto, University
of Saskatchewan, University of Victoria and York University. He won the CAA
Award for poetry in l988 for his Selected Poems, published by Oxford.
Winter and Mortal Remains were both nominated for the Governor-General’s
Award. He is the recipient of The Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for
Literary Excellence. His memoir, There Is A Season, won the inaugural
BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, and his novel Red Dog Red Dog,
was listed for the Giller Prize. He has published twenty-six books in the
past fifty years. Patrick Lane makes his home outside Victoria, BC.
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Sachiko Murakami's first collection of poems, The Invisibility Exhibit (Talonbooks 2008), was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She holds an MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Concordia University. New poems can be found in print at West Coast Line and online at Forget. She has worked for Matrix, Room, Event and The Capilano Review, and is a past member of Vancouver's Kootenay School of Writing collective. Recently moved from Vancouver, she now lives in Toronto.
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