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NeWest Press
NeWest Press is a Canadian publishing company. Established in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1977,George Melnyk, ''The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two: From the End of the War to the End of the Century''. University of Alberta Press, 1999. . p. 173. the company grew out of a literary magazine, ''NeWest Review'', which had been launched in 1975. Early members of the collective that established the company included writer Rudy Wiebe and University of Alberta academics Douglas Barbour, George Melnyk, and Diane Bessai."A voice of the West turns 25". ''The Globe and Mail'', April 4, 2002. The first title published by the company was ''Getting Here'', an anthology of short stories by students in Barbour's and Wiebe's creative writing classes at the University of Alberta, which included Aritha Van Herk, Myrna Kostash, Candas Jane Dorsey, Caterina Edwards, and Helen Rosta. The company publishes literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, mystery novels, and drama, with a particular but not ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...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] |
Glen Huser
Glen Huser (born 1 February 1943 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian fiction writer. Vancouver School of Art, second year qualification, 1965; University of Alberta, BEd (with distinction), 1970, M.A., 1988. Career Huser completed two years in teacher Education at the University of Alberta before starting his first career as a teacher at Rosslyn Junior High School in Edmonton, where he taught art and English for three years. During this time he took on a part-time job reviewing films for ''The Edmontonian'', a weekly community and entertainment magazine. After spending a winter term at the Vancouver School of Art (1964–1965), he returned to Edmonton, taught for one year at Highlands Junior High School, and then worked as a classroom teacher at McArthur Elementary School from 1967 to 1969. Following another year of study at the University of Alberta, he began a career as a teacher-librarian in Holyrood, Lendrum, Homesteader, Kirkness, and Overlanders Schools. In 1978, he dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiromi Goto
Hiromi Goto (born December 31, 1966 Chiba-ken, Japan) is a Japanese-Canadian writer, editor, and instructor of creative writing. Life Goto was born in Chiba'ken, Japan in 1966 and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1969. They lived on the west coast of British Columbia for eight years before moving to Nanton, Alberta, a small town in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains where her father farmed mushrooms. Goto earned her B.A. in English from the University of Calgary in 1989, where she received creative writing instruction from Aritha Van Herk and Fred Wah. Goto's grandmother told her Japanese stories when she was growing up. Her work is also influenced by her father's life stories in Japan. These stories often featured ghosts and folk creatures such as the kappa — a small creature with a frog's body, a turtle's shell and a bowl-shaped head that holds water. Her writing commonly explores the themes of race, gender and cultural experiences, like eating, while moving betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Goobie
Beth Goobie (born 1959) is a Canadian poet and fiction writer. Life Beth Goobie grew up in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. After working one year in Holland as an au pair, she spent the next four years earning a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Winnipeg and a B.A. in Religious Studies from the Mennonite Brethren Bible College, now Canadian Mennonite University. She then worked as a front line residential treatment worker in both Winnipeg and Edmonton. Writing Goobie's first published poems were "To the Creator" and "The Making in Edges Literary Magazine in February 1987. Her work has appeared in many Canadian literary journals, including ''The Fiddlehead'', '' Malahat Review'', ''The New Quarterly'', '' Antigonish Review'', ''Event'', ''Grain'', '' Prairie Fire'' and ''The Prairie Journal''. Her poem "Civilization lives in the throat" was selected by Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa for inclusion in ''2021 Best Canadian Poetry'' (Biblioasis). As of 2017, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Gawthrop (writer)
Daniel Gawthrop (born 1963 in Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a Canadian writer and editor.GAWTHROP, Daniel ''ABC Bookworld'', 2013. He is the author of five books, most recently ''The Trial of Pope Benedict'' and ''The Rice Queen Diaries''. As a journalist he was the original publisher and editor of '''' in , and has also contributed to publications including the '''', '' |
Gayleen Froese
Gayleen Froese (born 1972) is a Canadian novelist and singer-songwriter. She is the author of two paranormal mystery novels, the urban fantasy novel "The Dominion", and the Ben Ames Casefiles series of detective novels. Her third novel, "The Girl Whose Luck Ran Out", has been translated into French and German. Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Froese was educated at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) in Toronto. Her first album, ''Obituary'', won an Undiscovered Artist Award from CBC Radio and Froese was a showcase artist at Toronto's North by Northeast music festival in 1998. Froese appeared on Canadian Learning Television's ''A Total Write Off'' in 2006, and was one of twelve writers selected as a finalist for BookTelevision's ''3 Day Novel Contest'' in 2007. (Filmed in 2007, the show did not air until late 2009; Froese ended up as the winning contestant.) She was also twice shortlisted in the overall International Three-Day Novel Contest. Froese's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Fraser
Brad Fraser (born June 28, 1959 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and cultural commentator.Gaetan Charlebois and Anne Nothof"Fraser, Brad" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', June 2, 2019. He is one of the most widely produced Canadian playwrights both in Canada and internationally. His plays typically feature a harsh yet comical view of contemporary life in Canada, including frank depictions of sexuality, drug use and violence. Career Fraser's most noted early play was ''Wolf Boy'';Ray Conlogue, "Wolfboy proves a real howler". ''The Globe and Mail'', April 5, 1984. first staged in Edmonton in 1981, its 1984 production in Toronto by Theatre Passe Muraille was later noted as one of the first significant acting roles for Keanu Reeves. Fraser first came to national and international prominence as a playwright with ''Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love'', an episodically structured play about a group of thirtysomethings trying to find t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myrna Dey
Myrna Dey is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel ''Extensions'' was a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize."Myrna Dey's debut novel makes Giller Prize longlist" '''', September 6, 2011. It was the first novel ever named to the longlist through the award's new Readers' Choice program, which allowed the general public to nominate books for award consideration. A native of Calgary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah De Leeuw
Sarah de Leeuw (born 1973) is a Canadian writer and researcher whose authored publications include Unmarked: Landscapes Along Highway 16'' Frontlines: Portraits of Caregivers in Northern British Columbia'' Geographies of a Lover', Skeena' and Where it Hurts'. Early life and education A native of British Columbia, she grew up in Duncan, on the Queen Charlotte Islands (now Haida Gwaii) and Terrace. She has worked as a tug boat driver, logging camp cook and journalist. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in creative writing from the University of Victoria where she worked on the student newspaper, ''The Martlet'' and a PhD in cultural/historical geography from Queen's University. Career and research de Leeuw, Canada Research Chair (Humanities and Health Inequities) is a Professor with the Northern Medical Program and the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). Her current research includes: * Colonialism in B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Di Brandt
Di Brandt (born 31 January 1952) (née Janzen) often stylized as di brandt, is a Canadian poet and scholar from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018. Life and career Brandt grew up in Reinland, a Mennonite farming village in southern Manitoba near Winkler. Her first volume of poetry ''questions i asked my mother'' was published by Turnstone Press in 1987. Since then she has published seven more volumes of poetry, as well as literary criticism. Brandt has degrees from the University of Manitoba and University of Toronto and has also taught Canadian literature and creative writing. She was poetry editor at ''Prairie Fire Magazine'' and ''Contemporary Verse 2'' during the 1980s and 90s. She also served as Manitoba and Prairie Rep at the League of Canadian Poets National Council and the Writers' Union of Canada National Council. In 2018, she became the first Poet Laureate of Winnipeg, a position she held through 2019, and was awarded an Honorary Doctor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bowering
George Harry Bowering, (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and raised in the nearby town of Oliver, where his father was a high-school chemistry teacher. Bowering is author of more than 100 books. Bowering is the best-known of a group of young poets including Frank Davey, Fred Wah, Jamie Reid, and David Dawson who studied together at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. There they founded the journal ''TISH''. Bowering lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and is Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, where he worked for 30 years. Never having written as an adherent of organized religion, he has in the past wryly described himself as a Baptist agnostic. In 2002, Bowering was appointed the first ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. That same year, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
