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Faragher, Nick
Nick emigrated to Canada from the U.K. in 1979 and has also lived, worked and travelled in many different countries including Greece, Italy, Costa Rica and the south of France. These locales inform and inspire the fiction in his first collection of short stories The Well and Other Stories published by Thistledown Press in 2008. Nick's writing also draws on his experiences working in probation and parole. He was a chairing member of the Ontario Parole Board for a number of years and taught criminology at Centennial College in Toronto. Nick has written articles for national, provincial and local magazines and newspapers and cartoons for Regional newspaper. www.nickfaragher.com
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Haley, Heather
Poet, author, musician and media artist Heather Haley pushes boundaries by creating across disciplines, genre and media. Published in numerous journals and anthologies, her writing has been described as “supple and unusual, brawny and uncompromising.” Haley was an editor at the LA Weekly, publisher of Rattler and the Edgewise Cafe, one of Canada's first electronic literary magazines. Architect of the Edgewise ElectroLit Centre and the Vancouver Videopoem Festival, her own works have been official selections at dozens of international film festivals. She is the host and curator of SEE THE VOICE: Visible Verse at Pacific Cinémathèque, North America's sustaining venue for the presentation of new and artistically significant poetry video and film. An accomplished performer, Haley has shared her poetry and music with audiences around the world. Most recently she toured eastern Canada and the U.S. in support of her critically acclaimed AURAL Heather CD of spoken word songs, Princess Nut. For more info please visit my website: http://www.heatherhaley.com
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Lever, Bernice
Bernice Lever, who gets high on words, launches her 2009 book, GENERATION, Black Moss Press. A poet with 8 previous poetry books, including, “Never A Straight Line”, 2007, she has also written a college textbook and other non-fiction works. Living on Bowen and retired from college English teaching, she gives editing and marketing advice, and writing workshops. She enjoys performing her poems and prose pieces as she has read on 5 continents. Best known as editor of WAVES, a literary magazine from 1972-1987, Bernice has won awards for her poems, such as the Wm. Henry Drummond poetry prize, 2008. She continues to write on this peaceful island. In August, 2009, she was involved in the filming and promoting of the UBC summer poetry workshop, 1963, both at UBC and SFU.
In 2004, she received CAA’s Allan Sangster Award for service to other writers; in 2007, the Special Achievement Award at the Surrey International Writers Conference from the Surrey Board of Trade, and in 2008, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Vancouver Public Library and World Poetry Reading Series. Bernice is a Life member of the Canadian Authors Association, Canadian Poetry Association and The Ontario Poetry Society as well as an active member of the BC Federation of Writers and North Shore Writers. She now has provincial and national executive positions with the CAA, just as she did with the League of Canadian Poets in Toronto in 1990’s. Currently, she is E-Writer-in-Residence for both CAA branches of Vancouver and Ottawa. www.colourofwords.com
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Shatzky, Lisa
Lisa Shatzky's poetry has recently been accepted for publication in The Nashwaat Review, Jones Ave., and Grain Magazine in addition to a conditional acceptance in The New Yorker. Her poetry has been published in The Prairie Journal (2008), The Antigonish Review (2008), The Dalhousie Review (2008), Insights (2007), Canadian Woman Studies (2007), Cahoots Magazine (2006), and Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine (2006). Her poetry was also performed at literary festivals throughout British Columbia. A second poetry book A Pail for the Blackberries is being considered by a Canadian publisher for early 2010.
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