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Billy-Ray Belcourt
Billy-Ray Belcourt is a poet, scholar, and author from the Driftpile Cree Nation. Belcourt's works encompass a variety of topics and themes, including decolonial love, grief, intimacy and queer sexuality, and the role of Indigenous women in social resistance movements. Belcourt is also the author of the poetry collection ''This Wound is a World'' which was chosen as one of CBC's top ten poetry collections of 2017 and won the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. Belcourt was the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship and is currently an assistant professor in Indigenous Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Biography Belcourt grew up in the community of Driftpile in northern Alberta. He was raised by his grandparents and began writing poetry around the age of 19. As an undergraduate student, Belcourt studied Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta where he graduated with a B.A. (Hons.) with First Class Honours in 2016. While at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driftpile First Nation
The Driftpile First Nation (or the Driftpile Cree Nation) ( cr, ᒪᐦᑕᐦᑕᑲᐤ ᓯᐱᕀᐩ, mihtatakaw sîpîy) is a Treaty 8 First Nation with a reserve, Drift Pile River 150, located on the southern shore of the Lesser Slave Lake on Alberta Highway 2 in Northern Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter .... The band has approximately 1200 members. References First Nations governments in Alberta Cree governments Northern Alberta {{Alberta-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frontenac House
Frontenac House is an independent publishing house located in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada, founded in 2000 by Rose and David Scollard. The publishing house focuses on poetry, but has reached into other genres as well, including fiction, photography, Children/YA books, and non-fiction. Since its founding in 2000, the press has published over 120 original titles. Poetry Frontenac’s first publication was a YA novel, ''The Grass Beyond the Door'', by Cicely Veighey. Frontenac then focused on their prime area of interest--Canadian poetry—which began with the "Quartet 2001 of four poetry books." Each year since then, the company has published a set of four Quartet poetry titles. In 2010, to celebrate 10 years of activity, Frontenac published a Dektet of 10 titles. Since 2021, Frontenac House has also released titles in the spring of each year, publishing authors such as Barry Dempster, Natalie Meisner, and Keith Garebian with this expansion. Frontenac House has been recognized fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ReLit Award
The ReLit Awards are Canadian literary prizes awarded annually to book-length works in the novel, short-story and poetry categories."Three indie writers honoured by ReLit Awards". ''The Globe and Mail'', July 19, 2007. Founded in 2000 by Newfoundland filmmaker and author Kenneth J. Harvey. Subtitled'' Ideas, Not Money'' the main title of the awards is short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, and Relighting Literature."ReLit award winners named". ''Ottawa Citizen'', July 27, 2008. The awards were conceived by Harvey as an alternative to larger mainstream prizes such as the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Awards. There is no money awarded for the prize; in the first two years, the winners received a nominal prize of one Canadian dollar, but since 2003 the recipients have been presented with a silver ring designed by Newfoundland artisan Christopher Kearney, featuring four inlaid movable dials engraved with all of the letters of the alphabet. The award went on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Mississauga Nishnaabeg writer, musician, and academic from Canada. She is the author of several books centering on Indigenous thought and practices in Canada and is known for her work with the 2012 Idle No More protests. Simpson is currently faculty at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning. You've Changed Records released Simpson's critically acclaimed record ''Theory of Ice'' in March 2021. Life and work Simpson is an off-reserve member of Alderville First Nation. She was born and raised in Wingham, Ontario, by her Nishnaabeg mother, Dianne Simpson, and her father, Barry Simpson, who is of Scottish ancestry. While her parents continue to reside in Wingham, Simpson currently resides in Peterborough. Although Simpson's grandmother, Audrey Williamson (née Franklin), was born in Alderville First Nation, her parents relocated to Peterborough, where Simpson's great-grandfather, Hartley Franklin, could work on canoes. It would not be unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Voices Awards
The Indigenous Voices Awards are a Canadian literary award program, created in 2017 to honour indigenous literatures in Canada."New literary prize for Indigenous writers to offer $25K in awards" , October 19, 2017. It is administered by the Indigenous Literary Studies Association, a non-profit organization that promotes the production, study and teaching of Indigenous literatures. The awards grew out of a 2017 controversy, when a group of Canadian writers were criticized for campaigning on in favour of a prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberta Literary Awards
The Alberta Literary Awards (ALA), administered by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, have been awarded annually since 1982 to recognize outstanding writing by Alberta authors. The awards honour fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, children's literature. At the first public ALA Gala in 1994, the inaugural Golden Pen Lifetime Achievement Award was given to W. O. Mitchell. Alberta Literary Awards R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature The children’s literature category alternates yearly between picture and chapter books. The 2019 award is presented to an Alberta author of a children’s picture book published in 2017 or 2018. Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Awarded for a novel or collection of short fiction by an Alberta author published in the previous year. Past recipients are W. P. Kinsella, Sam Selvon, Pauline Gedge, Aritha van Herk, Mary Walters Riskin, Helen Forrester, Jacqueline Dumas, Thomas King, Greg Hollingshead, Robert Hilles, Roberta Rees, Richard Wagamese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Malahat Review
''The Malahat Review'' is a Canadian quarterly literary magazine established in 1967. It features contemporary Canadian and international works of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian literature. Iain Higgins is the current editor. ''The Malahat Review'' publishes new work by emerging and established writers of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from Canada and abroad. ''The Malahat Review'' is based in Victoria, British Columbia, and circulates locally, regionally, and nationally throughout Canada and sixteen other countries. A paid subscription base exists that is 88 percent Canadian, with libraries representing 16 percent of paid subscriptions. History ''The Malahat Review'' was founded in 1967 at the University of Victoria by Robin Skelton and John Peter. The magazine was edited by Skelton from 1971 to 1983, and thereafter by Constance Rooke, Derk Wynand, Marlene Cookshaw, and John Barton (editor from 2004 to 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Magazine
''This Magazine'' is an independent alternative Canadian political magazine. History and profile The magazine was launched "by a gang of school activists" in April 1966 as ''This Magazine Is About Schools'', a journal covering political issues in the education system. During its early years, its editorial offices were located near the University of Toronto in space rented from Campus Co-operative Residences Inc., which in the late 1960s spawned the experimental "free university" Rochdale College Rochdale College was an experiment in student-run alternative education and co-operative living in Toronto, Canada from 1968 to 1975. It provided space for 840 residents in a co-operative living space. It was also an informal, noncredited free .... The educational philosophy of Rochdale College was influenced by this association, and by several individuals who published in ''This Magazine'', especially Dennis Lee. The name was shortened to simply ''This Magazine'' in 1973, and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Walrus (magazine)
''The Walrus'' is an independent, non-profit Canadian media organization. It is multi-platform and produces an 8-issue-per-year magazine and online editorial content that includes current affairs, fiction, poetry, and podcasts, a national speaker series called The Walrus Talks, and branded content for clients through The Walrus Lab. History Creation In 2002, David Berlin, a former editor and owner of the ''Literary Review of Canada'', began promoting his vision of a world-class Canadian magazine. This led him to meet with then-''Harper's'' editor Lewis H. Lapham to discuss creating a "''Harper's'' North," which would combine the American magazine with 40 pages of Canadian content. As Berlin searched for funding to create that content, a mutual friend put him in touch with Ken Alexander, a former high school English and history teacher and then senior producer of CBC Newsworld's ''CounterSpin''. Like Berlin, Alexander was hoping to found an intelligent Canadian magazine t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rumpus
''The Rumpus'' is an online literary magazine launched on January 20, 2009. The site features interviews, book reviews, essays, comics, and critiques of creative culture as well as original fiction and poetry. The site runs two subscription-based book clubs and two subscription-based letters programs, Letters in the Mail and Letters for Kids. ''The Rumpus'' has fostered writers, artists, and editors like Roxane Gay who served as Essays Editor and who credits the site for developing her audience, Isaac Fitzgerald who served as Managing Editor before moving to BuzzFeed to help create BuzzFeed Books, Rick Moody, Wendy MacNaughton, Paul Madonna, Peter Orner, Yumi Sakugawa, Steve Almond, and Cheryl Strayed, who began her "Dear Sugar" advice column on the site. In July 2016, the site launched the Rumpus Lo-Fi Film Festival in Los Angeles as response to the high cost of other festivals. In January 2017, ''The Rumpus'' was purchased by Marisa Siegel, previously the site's Managing Edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brick (magazine)
''Brick, A Literary Journal'' is a biannual literary magazine established in 1977. It publishes literary and creative non-fiction. History ''Brick'' was established in 1977 in London, Ontario, as a book review section in the literary magazine ''Applegarth's Folly'', itself a product of the publishing house Applegarth Follies. Stan Dragland edited the first issue. ''Brick'' soon detached from its parent magazine (which ceased to exist by the second issue of ''Brick'') and Dragland began sharing editorial duties with Jean McKay. The two also operated their own publishing house, Nairn, which became Brick/Nairn in 1979, and eventually Brick Books in 1981. ''Brick'' was taken over by Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding in 1985. Though still formatted like a magazine, it began to transform from a book review into a much more general literary magazine, eventually focusing on literary and creative non-fiction with an emphasis on personal essays. In 1991, Coach House Press published ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach activities such as National Poetry Month, its website Poets.org, the syndicated series Poem-a-Day, ''American Poets'' magazine, readings and events, and poetry resources for K-12 educators. In addition, it sponsors a portfolio of nine major poetry awards, of which the first was a fellowship created in 1946 to support a poet and honor "distinguished achievement," and more than 200 prizes for student poets. In 1984, Robert Penn Warren noted that "To have great poets there must be great audiences, Whitman said, to the more or less unheeding ears of American educators. Ambitiously, hopefully, the Academy has undertaken to remedy this plight." In 1998, Dinitia Smith described the Academy of American Poets as "a venerable body at the symbolic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
