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Dandelion Magazine
''Dandelion Magazine'' was an independent literary magazine published in Calgary, Calgary, Alberta between 1975 and 2011. In its day, according to ''The Literary History of Alberta'', it was considered Alberta’s leading literary magazine. It started as an annual publication and then became biannual. Over the years, ''Dandelion'' featured fiction, poetry, visual art and reviews. Contributors consisted of emerging and established Canadian authors including Joan Clark, Edna Alford, Carol Shields, Robert Hilles, W. P. Kinsella, Robert Kroetsch, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Aritha Van Herk, Aritha van Herk, and Karen Connelly, among others. Facing financial and operational difficulties in the late 1990s, the magazine moved to the University of Calgary Department of English where it was rebranded as ''dANDelion'' and published by a series of editorial collectives and faculty advisors until 2011. History 1970s ''Dandelion Magazine'' was the brainchild of then Calgary-based writers Joan Clark and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Calgary is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in the transitional area between the Rocky Mountain Foothills and the Canadian Prairies, about east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies, roughly south of the provincial capital of Edmonton and approximately north of the Canada–United States border. The city anchors the south end of the Statistics Canada-defined urban area, the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. Calgary's economy includes activity in the energy, financial services, film and television, transportation and logistics, technology, manufacturing, aerospace, health and wellness, retail, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Kiyooka
Roy Kenzie Kiyooka (January 18, 1926January 8, 1994) was a Canadian painter, poet, photographer, arts teacher, and multi-media artist. Biography A Nisei, or a second generation Japanese Canadian, Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and raised in Calgary, Alberta. His parents were Harry Shigekiyo Kiyooka and Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka. Roy's grandfather on the maternal side, a samurai Ōe Masamichi, was the 17th headmaster of the Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū school of swordsmanship. Roy Kiyooka's brother Harry Mitsuo Kiyooka also became an abstract painter, a professor of art, and sometimes a curator of his brother's work. Roy's youngest brother Frank Kiyooka became a potter. In 1942, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the family was uprooted and moved to a small town in rural Alberta called Opal. Roy Kiyooka was unable to finish high school. From 1946 to 1949, he studied with Jock Macdonald and Illingworth Holey Kerr at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzette Mayr
Suzette Mayr is a Canadian novelist who has written five critically acclaimed novels. Currently a professor at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Arts, Mayr's works have both won and been nominated for several literary awards. Biography Suzette Mayr was born in Calgary, Alberta.Kamboureli, Smaro. ''Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literatures in English''. Don Mills: Oxford UP, 2007. Print. Originally planning to study science in her post-secondary career, Mayr changed focus due to her strong performance in English.Stallworthy, Bob.In Silhouette: Profiles of Alberta Writers", p. 109. Frontenac House. March 2009. A creative writing course at the University of Calgary led to her decision to pursue a writing career. She graduated with an Honours bachelor's degree in English. Following her graduation from the University of Calgary, Mayr went on to acquire a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Alberta and a PhD from the University of New South W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Markotic
Nicole Markotić is a Canadian poet and novelist who lives in Windsor, Ontario. She teaches creative writing at the University of Windsor. Markotic specializes in the subjects of Canadian literature, poetry, children's literature, disability in film and disability in literature. Previously she was an assistant professor at the University of Calgary. She was the co-editor, along with Ashok Mathur Ashok Mathur is a South Asian (Indo-Canadian) cultural organizer, writer and visual artist. Prior to this he was the head of Creative Studies and a professor in the Department of Creative Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan cam ..., of Calgary-based DisOrientation Chapbooks. She was the poetry editor of Red Deer College Press from 1998 to 2004. She co-edited ''The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film'' a critical book about disability in film, which was published by Ohio State Press in 2010. She also edited ''Robert Kroetsch: Essays on His Works'', which was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Beaulieu
Derek Alexander Beaulieu (born December 7, 1973 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian poet, publisher and anthologist. Beaulieu studied contemporary Canadian poetics at the University of Calgary and Creative Writing at Roehampton University. His work has appeared internationally in small press publications, magazines, and in visual art galleries. He has lectured on small press politics, arts funding and literary community in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Iceland. He was the 2014-2016 Poet Laureate of Calgary, Alberta, Canada and is the 2022-2024 Poet Laureate of Banff, Alberta, Canada. He works extensively around issues of community and poetics, and along those lines has edited (or co-edited) the magazines ''filling Station'' (1998–2001, 2004–2008), ''dANDelion'' (2001–2004), ''endNote'' (2000–2001) and ''The Minute Review'' (2010, 2021-). He founded housepress in 1997 from which he published small editions of poetry, prose and critical work until 2004. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adele Megann
Adele Megann (born September 3, 1962) is a Canadian writer. She is a recipient of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award. Biography Megann attended Concordia University, received an MA from the University of Notre Dame in 1985 and a BEd from the University of Calgary 1998. Megann is a Newfoundlander based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her short fiction has been published in many Canadian and United States reviews and anthologies. As an active member of the writing community, Megann has won several awards, emceed readings, and taught creative writing. She has given over thirty readings and interviews. Megann lived several years in Calgary, where she was part of the Pack of Liars writing workshop, and was a fiction editor of ''Dandelion'' magazine. Since moving to |
Nancy Holmes
Nancy Holmes (born February 9, 1959) is a Canadian poet and educator. Biography Holmes was born in Edmonton and went to high school in Toronto. She then attended the University of Calgary where she received her MA in English. She has published four collections of poetry and many short stories. Her poetry and fiction have been published in ''A Room of One's Own'', ''Lichen'', ''The Malahat Review'', ''Matrix'', ''Prairie Fire'', ''Grain'', ''The Harpweaver'', and ''The Antigonish Review''. Holmes is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Works *''Valancy and the New World'' (Kalamalka Press, 1988) *''Down to the Golden Chersonese: Victorian Lady Travellers'' (Sono Nis, 1991) *''The Adultery Poems'' (Ronsdale, 2002) *''Mandorla'' (Ronsdale Press, 2005) *''Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems'' (2008) *''The Flicker Tree: Okanagan Poems'' (2012) *''Arborophobia'' (University of Alberta Press University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornelia Hoogland
Cornelia Hoogland is a Canadian poet, playwright and retired professor. She lived on Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada, but until 2011 divided her time between London, Ontario as well, where she was a professor at the University of Western Ontario. Hoogland has performed and worked internationally in the areas of poetry and theatre. In 2004, she founded and was the director until 2011 of Antler River Poetry (formerly Poetry London), a poetry reading and workshop series. Works Poetry ''Woods Wolf Girl'' (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011) is Hoogland's 6th book of poetry, and is based on the fairy tale, Red Riding Hood. ''Crow'' (Black Moss Press), was also released in 2011. Her 2012 chapbook, ''Gravelly Bay'' (Alfred Gustav Press, 2012), is set at the ferry terminal on Denman Island. In 2017, her poem "Tourists Stroll a Victoria Waterwawas one of five poems named to the shortlist of the CBC Literary Prize, CBC Poetry Prize. Hoogland was a 2020/2021 featured poet as a part of Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Stenson (writer)
Frederick "Fred" Stenson (born December 22, 1951) is a Canadian writer of historical fiction and nonfiction relating to the Canadian West. In addition to his published work, Stenson has been a faculty member at The Banff Centre, where he has directed the Wired Writing Studio for eleven years. He is also a documentary film writer, with over 140 credits. He writes a regular wit column for Alberta Views Magazine. His 2000 novel ''The Trade'' was shortlisted for Canada's Giller Prize. Both ''The Trade'' and his 2003 novel ''Lightning'' won the Grant MacEwan Author's Prize for best Alberta book of the year. His 2008 novel ''The Great Karoo'' was nominated for the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award in Fiction and was a nominee for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Canada/Caribbean). Stenson was raised on a farm and cattle ranch in the Waterton region of southwest Alberta. He is married to the poet Pamela Banting and lives in Cochrane, Alberta. His son Ted is a fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Anthony Jarman
Mark Anthony Jarman (born 11 June 1955 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian fiction writer. Jarman's work includes the novel ''Salvage King, Ya!'', the short story collection ''Knife Party at the Hotel Europa'' and the travel book ''Ireland's Eye.'' A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Jarman is currently a faculty member of the English department at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Previously, he has taught at the University of Victoria. Jarman's writing has won the O. Henry Award, the Gold National Magazine Award in nonfiction, the Jack Hodgins Fiction Prize, and has been a finalist for the Journey Prize. Jarman has been awarded the Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award twice. Personal life Though native to Edmonton, Jarman has travelled extensively across the country and the world, visiting places such as Ireland, the United States and Italy. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Frey
Cecelia Frey (born 1936) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and short story writer. Her works have appeared in literary magazines and in numerous anthologies, and broadcast on CBC Radio as well as produced by the Women's Television Network. She was the 2018 recipient of the Alberta Literary Awards, Golden Pen Lifetime Achievement Award. Biography Cecelia Frey was born in 1936 on a homestead near Lac Ste. Anne County, Padstow south of Mayorthorpe, Alberta, and moved to Edmonton where she worked as a social worker and librarian. In 1970, she launched her writing career by attending the University of Calgary where she took a writing course with W.O. Mitchell. She has since worked as a freelance writer, editor and teacher. An organizer and producer of the Calgary Creative Reading Series, she served as fiction editor of Dandelion Magazine from 1983-1988. Frey lives in Calgary, Alberta. Bibliography Fiction * Lovers Fall Back To Earth (Inanna Publications, 2018) * Moments of Joy (Ina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloria Sawai
Gloria Sawai (20 December 1932 – 20 July 2011), born Gloria Ruth Ostrem in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was an American-born fiction author, based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She died on 20 July 2011. In early childhood, she moved with her family to Saskatchewan, then in her youth to Alberta. Her father was a Lutheran minister. Education * 1948: Camrose Lutheran College (today the University of Alberta Augustana Faculty) ( Camrose, Alberta). ** October 2003: Received Distinguished Alumni Award * 1953: Bachelor of Arts, Augsburg College (Minneapolis, Minnesota) * 1977: Master of Fine Arts, University of Montana (Missoula, Montana) Awards and recognition * fiction winner, Governor General's Award, ''A Song for Nettie Johnson'', 2002 * Danuta Gleed Literary Award The Danuta Gleed Literary Award is a Canadian national literary prize, awarded since 1998. It recognizes the best debut short fiction collection by a Canadian author in English language. The annual prize was founded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
