Brendan McLeod is a Canadian spoken word artist, musician and novelist. His work often deals with the exploration of social and political commentary, family histrionics, surreal love poems, obscure adventure stories, and powerful personal stories. As a

spoken word Spoken word refers to an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. It is a late 20th century continuation of an ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetics of ...

artist and

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poet, he has earned the honours of Canadian SLAM poetry champion (2004), Vancouver SLAM poetry champion (2005), and finished second at the 2005 World SLAM championships, held in the Netherlands. In 2006 McLeod was winner of the

Three-Day Novel Contest The Three-Day Novel Contest is an annual Canadian literary contest conducted in September of each year. The contest, which is open to writers from anywhere in the world, gives entrants three days to write a novel. Writers are permitted to plan and o ...

and consequently his first novel, ''The Convictions of Leonard McKinley'' was published by

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. The novel has been called both "creepy but...good" and a work of "buoyant irony". McLeod is also a member of The Fugitives, a "wildly talented spoken-word-cranked"

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-based band also including Adrian Glynn and Steven Charles. Notable former members of The Fugitives include C.R. Avery,

Barbara Adler Barbara Adler is a musician, poet, and storyteller based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is a past Canadian Team Slam Champion, was a founding member of the Vancouver Youth Slam, and a past CBC Poetry Face Off winner. She was a founding membe ...

, and Mark Berube. The group has been classified under many guises including slam folk, folk hop,''The Omega'', Thompson Rivers University's Independent Student Newspaper, "Fugitives rock Alumni Theatre", Jessica Scharien, 02/04/09 http://www.theomega.ca/article/17678 and spoken word cabaret.

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External links

McLeod's Website
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