Issue
# 138
Contributors
To This Issue
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Featured Artist:
John Neville
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Rose Adams is a visual artist and teacher
in the Foundation Division of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
She won third prize in the Atlantic Writing Competition in 1997.
E.A. Axelberg is a longtime copy editor on
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Her work has appeared in Hidden Oak
Poetry Journal and is forthcoming in North Dakota Quarterly,
The Distillery and Cumberland Poetry Review.
Elizabeth Bachinsky is currently completing
an MFA in creative writing at UBC where she is poetry editor of PRISM
international. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in a number
of literary journals such as The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead,
Room of One's Own and others.
Rosemary Blake lives in Toronto and is originally
from Australia. Her poems have been published in various Canadian magazines
including The Fiddlehead and Grain, as well as in a number
of anthologies such as the Banff Centre's Anthology, RipRap. Her
work has previously appeared in The Antigonish Review.
b. borkent lives and writes in Victoria,
British Columbia. Her poetry has appeared in Grain, The Fiddlehead,
Prairie Fire and Event.
Heather Browne is a poet who lives in Sussex,
New Brunswick and is a frequent visitor to New Brunswick classrooms where
she conducts writing workshops. These poems form part of Patternings,
a poem-in-series.
Kevin Bushell is a teacher in the English
Department at Vanier College, Montreal, Quebec. He has published poems
in The Fiddlehead and other literary journals. The poems appearing
here are from a manuscript in progress based on The Wright Brothers and
the early history of flight. The working title is The Testimony of
Birds.
Alexander Campbell has published short fiction
in lichen and Blood & Aphorisms and non-fiction in the latter
and in The Globe and Mail. Currently he works for an international
development agency.
Sara Cassidy has had poetry and prose published
in a number of literary journals, most recently The Fiddlehead
and Prairie Fire, as well as in two chapbooks, Ultrasound of
My Heart (Reference West, 1999) and Sardines (Greenboathouse
Press, 2001).
Robert D. Denham is John P. Fishwick Professor
of English at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. He is the founder of
the Iron Mountain Press and former director of English programs
for the Modern Language Association. He has written or edited eighteen
volumes on Frye's work and has been transcribing and editing Frye's unpublished
diaries, correspondence, manuscripts and notebooks for the Collected Works
of Northrop Frye project for the past decade.
J.C. Ellefson has had recent work published
in Orbis, Lullwater, and The Madison Review. J.C.
teaches writing, is the poet-in-residence and chairman of the verbal insurrection
movement at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont.
Du Fu (712-770) was born in Gongxian, Henan.
He began to write poems about the sufferings of the poor. After the An
Lushan rebellion began, he had a hard time as a refugee, but this brought
him closer to the people. His well-known poems describing three officials
and three departures were written during this period. In 759 he went to
Chengdu. After wandering in Sichuan, Hubei and Hunan for more than ten
years, he finally died on board a small boat on his way from Changsha
to Yueyang.
Todd Hopkins lives and writes in Montreal
and Ottawa. He has recorded two electro-acoustic/spoken-word CD's with
Matthias Von Imhoff. His work has also appeared in stonestone (UNBC).
W.J. Keith is Professor Emeritus at the University
of Toronto, and has written numerous books on Canadian and English literature,
his latest being Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New
Age / Le nouveau siècle (2002). He has published two volumes of poetry,
Echoes in Silence (1992) and In the Beginning, and Other Poems
(1999).
Bernard Kelly is the editor of paperplates,
an online literary magazine (www.paperplates.org). His recent publications
include a short story in Pottersfield Portfolio and a chapbook
entitled "Hanky" [espresso].
M. Travis Lane's most recent work,
Keeping Afloat, won the Atlantic Poetry Award. His new collection,
Touch Earth, will be out later this year. He lives in Fredericton,
New Brunswick.
Moberley Luger is originally from Vancouver,
but currently lives in Montreal where she just finished her M.A. in English
and Creative Writing. She has poems published or forthcoming in The
Malahat Review, A Room of One's Own, Grain, and CV2.
Gregory Maillet is an Assistant Professor
of English for Campion College at the University of Regina, where he regularly
teaches courses on Shakespeare, the History of Literary Criticism, and
J.R.R. Tolkien.
rob mclennan releases two collections in
2004 - what's left (Talonbooks) & stone, book one (Palimpsest
Press). The editor/publisher of above/ground press & STANZAS magazine,
he is editor of (among others) Groundswell: best of above/ground press,
1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press) with Ottawa poet Stephen Brockwell, www.poetics.ca.
John Neville is a 5th generation Neville
to live in Halls Harbour, Nova Scotia. John draws on the long held tradition
of storytelling common to this tiny fishing village as a source of inspiration
for his work. Using imagination and simplicity, John can be both reverent
and humorous in memorializing tales of the fast disappearing coastal life
along the Bay of Fundy. John has exhibited in Scotland, Switzerland, Canada,
the United States and his work can be seen at www.houston-north-gallery.ns.ca
Carolyn Norberg lives in Flatrock, Newfoundland.
She makes soup for a coffee shop in St. John's. Her fiction has appeared
in The Malahat Review and she has poetry forthcoming in The
Fiddlehead.
Richard Norman has had poetry published in
The Fiddlehead. His novel placed second in Atlantic Canada for
the H.R. Percy Award. He lives in Japan.
Erin Noteboom lives and writes in Ontario.
She has been be published in The Antigonish Review, The Malahat
Review, Grain, Fiddlehead and PRISM. Her first
book, Ghost Maps: Poems for Carl Hruska was published in 2004 (Wolsak
and Wynn).
Peter Sanger is a retired English professor
living in Truro, Nova Scotia. He is also poetry editor of The Antigonish
Review.
Louise Sidley was born in Toronto and now
lives with her artist husband and two children in Rossland, British Columbia.
Her stories have been published in The Amethyst Review and Horsefly.
Anne Simpson is a writer and artist who lives
in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She has published two collections of poetry,
Light Falls Through You and Loop. She has written short
stories, a novel, Canterbury Beach, and is currently working on
another.
Royston Tester's short fiction has
been published in literary journals such as Descant, PRISM international,
The Malahat Review, Queens Street Quarterly, B.& A. New
Writing and others and in numerous anthologies. His articles and essays
have appeared in The Globe & Mail and the Hamilton Spectator.
Kim Trainor lives in Montreal where she is
working on a collection of short stories. Her fiction has appeared in
PRISM internation and Event and is forthcoming in Grain.
Ouyang Yu is an Australian poet, novelist
and critic. Born in Huangzhou, Hubei, in the People's Republic of China,
Ouyang Yu completed an MA in English and Australian Literature in Shanghai
and worked as an interpreter, translator and lecturer in China. He writes
in both English and Chinese. Best known for his poetry, he has also written
fiction and criticism in both languages, and has translated over a dozen
major Australian literary texts into Chinese.
Eleni Zisimatos Auerbach is a St. Francis
Xavier University graduate, currently living in Montreal. She was a National
Magazine Awards finalist (poetry) in 2003 and is co-editor of the poetry
journal Vallum. She is also a free-lance writer for the Montreal
Review of Books.
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