Issue #
144
Contributors
To This Issue
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Featured Artist - Brian
Burke
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Bert Almon lives and writes in Edmonton,
Alberta.
Rosemary Blake has published poems
in previous editions of The Antigonish Review. Her recent
publications are in The Fiddlehead, White Wall Review,
and are forthcoming in Poetry New Zealand.
William Buchan lives in Calgary,
Alberta. His poems have previously appeared in such publications
as Filling Station and The Fiddlehead, and have
been broadcast on CBC Radio's Alberta Anthology.
Heather Cadsby is the author of three
books of poetry. Her most recent book, A Tantrum of Synonyms
(Wolsak and Wynn Publishers), was a finalist for the Pat Lowther
Award. She lives in Toronto.
Deirdre Dwyer is the author of two
collections of poetry: The Breath that Lightens the Body
(Beach Holme, 1999) and Going to the Eyestone (Wolsak &
Wynn, 2002). She teaches writing part-time at Mount Saint Vincent
University and lives on Nova Scotia's eastern shore with her husband
Hans, and Molly, their golden retriever.
Krista Foss is a former journalist
with The Globe and Mail and current freelance writer whose
work has appeared in numerous magazines. She lives with her husband
and daughter in Hamilton, Ontario where she is a part-time instructor
at Mohawk College and a fledgling fiction writer.
Thomas J. Hubschman (tom@gowanusbooks.com)
is the author of the novel Billy Boy (Savvy Press) and
a forthcoming collection, The Jew's Wife & Other Stories.
His short stories, essays and reviews have appeared on the BBC
World Service, in New York Press, The Free Press and in numerous
other print and online publications (www.gowanusbooks.com/resume2.htm).
Hubschman is also the publisher and editor of Gowanus (www.gowanusbooks.com),
an international quarterly for writers in developing nations.
An anthology of writing from Gowanus appeared under his
name in 2001 (The Best of Gowanus: New Writing from Africa,
Asia and the Caribbean). A second anthology is scheduled for
publication in 2006.
Kevin Irie has published four books
of poetry, most recently Dinner at Madonna's (Frontenac
House, 2003), and Angel Blood: The Tess Poems (Frontenac
House, 2004), which was long-listed for the national ReLit Poetry
Award in 2005. He lives in Toronto.
Linda Kirkby is a Victoria, B.C.
writer working on a collection of short stories. She has attended
courses at the Victoria School of Writing and at Camosun College.
Chad Michael Lange holds an MFA in
creative writing from Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California,
and is the recipient of two separate fellowships from The MacDowell
Colony. He has also received grants from the California Arts Council
and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. His fiction has appeared
in fourteen hills and ZYZZYVA.
Anne Le Dressay has published one
book of poetry, Sleep Is a Country, and two chapbooks,
Woman Dreams and This Body That I Live In. Most
recently, she has had poems published in Prairie Fire and
Arc. She also has poems forthcoming in The New Quarterly
and contemporary verse 2.
Carrie Mac is the author of The
Beckoners and Charmed. Her stories have been published
in PRISM International, Prairie Fire, and SUBTerrain,
among others. She is currently working on her third novel and
a collection of short stories.
Dave Margoshes is a fiction writer
and poet who lives in Regina. His poetry and stories are widely
published in Canadian literary magazines. His most recent book
of poetry is Purity of Absence (Beach Holme Publishing,
2001).
Susan McCaslin is a poet and Instructor
of English at Douglas College in Coquitlam, B.C. She is the author
of ten volumes of poetry, including A Plot of Light (Oolichin
Press, 2004) and At the Mercy Seat (Ronsdale Press, 2003).
She is also the editor of two anthologies. She lives in Fort Langley,
B.C. with her husband and daughter.
Ron McFadyen is a Vancouver artist
born in 1943. Prior to moving to the west coast, he began his
artistic career as a Graphic Designer in Southern Alberta. He
has been involved in the creative process for over 35 years working
in pen and ink, acrylics, oils, watercolors, plaster and stone.
Ron has mixed mediums to produce images which have sold to many
businesses, galleries and private collectors. To Ron, original
thought is of most importance and he strives to produce images
that evoke a sense of his reality. His ultimate goal is to maintain
simplicity and honesty in his work, continually exploring the
essence of feelings and the world we live in.
Jean McNeil is originally from Cape
Breton island but has lived in London, England for 15 years. She
is the author of two novels and a collection of short stories.
A new novel, The Interpreter of Silences, is forthcoming
in Canada in Spring 2006.
Ernst Meister was born in Hagen in
Westphalia (1911), and died there in 1979. He published his first
book in 1932, but nothing during the Third Reich. He resumed publishing
in 1953 and produced a further 14 collections. In 1975, Michael
Hambuger in his anthology of German Poetry 1910-1975 said of him:
"A pure and dedicated poet, he has kept aloof from literary business
of all kinds, and has suffered neglect in consequence." In 1979,
he was posthumously awarded the George Büchner Prize.
Steve Noyes' fourth book, Ghost
Country, is forthcoming from Brick Books in 2006. He lives
in Victoria, where he studies Chinese and is working on a novel.
Nicholas Ruddock practices medicine
in Guelph, Ontario. He has also lived in Newfoundland and Labrador,
Yukon and Quebec. His poetry has appeared in The Antigonish
Review and The Fiddlehead, and short fiction in the
Dalhousie Review.
K.V. Skene's work has appeared in
Canadian, U.K., U.S., Irish and Australian publications. His latest
publications include Only a Dragon and Calendar of Rain,
winners of the 2003 and 2004 Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award and
published by Micro Prose (Canada). K.V. Lives in Oxford England.
J.K. Snyder is a retired English
Professor who lives in Ketch Harbour, Nova Scotia. He has published
poetry, translations and reviews in The Antigonish Review
and other Canadian and U.S. literary journals.
R.W. Stedingh is the author of four
books of poetry: Faces of Eve (1969), From a Bell Tower
(1971), The Stanley Park Suite (1999), and Poems from
the European Notebooks (2001). His work has most recently
appeared in Queen's Quarterly, Event and Canadian
Literature.
Andrew Stubbs teaches rhetoric and
composition and creative writing at the University of Regina.
He has co-edited, with Judy Chapman, The Other Harmony: The
Collected Poetry of Eli Mandel, and has recently co-edited
a collection of essays on the theory and practice of rhetoric
in the post-secondary classroom. His poetry has appeared in a
number of journals.
Anna Swanson lives in Vancouver and
works in an Alberta fire tower during the summer. She studied
writing at the University of Victoria, and attended the Banff
Wired Writing Studio. Her poetry has appeared in various journals
including Grain, ARC, CVII, Prairie Fire
and The Malahat Review, and she recently received an Honourable
Mention for the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award.
George Whipple was born in Saint
John, New Brunswick, he grew up in Toronto, and now lives and
writes in Burnaby, British Columbia. A member of the League of
Canadian Poets, he has been profiled in Canadian Author
and Poet's Market (US), is listed in Contemporary Authors,
and his poetry has appeared in nearly all of the major literary
magazines in Canada.
Anne Harding Woodworth's poetry is
published widely in journals such as Painted Bride Quarterly,
Cimarron Review, U.S. Catholic, Potamic Review,
and Byline. Her poetry and essays appear in several anthologies.
Author of three books of poetry, she holds an MFA degree in poetry.
She lives in Washington, D.C., where she is a member of
the Poetry Board at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Howard Wright lives and writes in
Northern Ireland.
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