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Plenitude (magazine)
''Plenitude'' () is a Canadian literary magazine."Crush worthy" . '''', March 21, 2013. Launched in 2012 by editor Andrea Routley as a platform for new work by writers, it originally published biannually in electronic format for distribution on s and tablets; in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xtra!
''Xtra Magazine'' (formerly ''DailyXtra'' and ''Xtra!'') is an LGBTQ-focused digital publication and former print newspaper published by Pink Triangle Press in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The publication is a continuation of the company's former print titles ''Xtra!'', ''Xtra Ottawa'', and ''Xtra Vancouver'', which were all discontinued in 2015."Gay newspaper Xtra to stop printing, go digital only" '''', January 14, 2015. History ''Xtra'' was founded in Toronto on February 19, 1984 (with a March cover date) by Pink Triangle Press, a not-for-profit organization. It was introduced as a ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Holbrook
Susan Holbrook is a Canadian poet, whose collection ''Throaty Wipes'' was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2016 Governor General's Awards."Governor-General's Literary Award short list a serious case of déjà vu" '' The Globe and Mail'', October 4, 2016. Her debut poetry collection, ''misled'', was published in 1999 while she was a graduate student at the . It was shortlisted fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mette Bach
Mette Bach is a Danish-Canadian author, teacher, screenwriter, and director. She was born in Denmark and grew up in North Delta. Bach attended Simon Fraser University where she received a Bachelor of Arts in English. She has an MFA from the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing Program. Bibliography Books Mette Bach's first book, ''Off the Highway: Growing Up in North Delta'', was published in 2010 by New Star Books. ''Off the Highway'' is the nineteenth book in the "Transmontanus" series, edited by Terry Glavin. The book explores her childhood growing up with immigrant parents in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Bach has also written several young adult novels for Lorimer's high/low series. ''Killer Drop'' (2017) and ''Femme'' (2015) are part of the SideStreets series of "edgy high/low fiction for teen reluctant readers." ''Love is Love'' (2018), ''Charming'' (2019), ''Cinders'' (2019), and ''You're You'' (2017) and 'The Love Code' (2021) are part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shawn Syms
Shawn Syms (born 1970) is a Canadian writer and activist on LGBT issues and other aspects of progressive politics based in Toronto, Ontario. From 1988 until 1992, he was one of the editors and publishers of ''Rites'', a Canadian monthly magazine of queer history, politics and culture. Syms's work for ''Rites'' included political and cultural analysis that was referenced in such books as ''The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader''Abelove H, Barale MA, Halperin DM, eds., ''The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader.'' Routledge, 1993, page 43. and ''Global Sports Sponsorship'',Amis JM, Cornwell, BT, eds., ''Global Sports Sponsorship.'' Berg, 2005, page 282. and reprinted in the respectedHoffman A"An Army of Ex Lovers"/ref> left-of-centre LGBT weekly '' Gay Community News''. During that time, Syms was also active in the political organization AIDS Action NOW!, which fought for access to treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS. In 1997 and 1998, he was publisher,Cudmore, D"The Little Gay Paper T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Quan
Andy Quan (born 7 July 1969) is a Canadian author who now lives in Sydney. In his writing, he frequently explores the ways in which sexual identity and cultural identity interact. Quan is openly gay. Quan was born in Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. Th ..., British Columbia, Canada. In addition to his writing, Quan is a musician and community activist. He was the first ever full-time paid employee of ILGA and has worked as a policy writer and project manager on issues related to the global HIV epidemic. He now works as an editor and copywriter. Works * (with Jim Wong-Chu) * (short fiction collection) * (poetry) * (erotica) * (poetry) * (journal) References External linksAndy Quan website 1969 births Living people Canadian expatriates in Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannon Webb-Campbell
Shannon Webb-Campbell is Canadian writer, poet and editor. She is descended from Miꞌkmaq people from the Qalipu First Nation in Newfoundland. Writing career In December 2013 Webb-Campbell was chosen to be the 2014 Canadian Women in Literary Arts (CWILA) "critic in residence". As part of her residency, she published interviews and reviews in ''The National Post'', ''The Telegraph Journal'', ''The Coast'' and ''Plenitude Magazine.'' Her first book, ''Still No Word'', was published by Breakwater Books in 2015. The collection of poetry explores identity, wounding and healing. The publication of the book was part of the Egale Canada Out in Print Literary Award, which Webb-Campbell had won in 2014. The award provides "financial and publishing support to an emerging queer and/or trans-spectrum, female-identified writer in Canada." Controversy surrounding ''Who Took My Sister?'' In 2018, Webb-Campbell published her second collection of poetry titled ''Who Took my Sister?'' focusin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Rose
Rachel Rose (born September 20, 1970) is a Canadian/American poet, essayist and short story writer. She has published three collections of poetry, ''Giving My Body to Science'', ''Notes on Arrival and Departure'', and ''Song and Spectacle''. Her poems, essays and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada and the United States. In 2011, Rose and composer Leslie Uyeda were commissioned by the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver to write the libretto for Canada's first lesbian opera, ''When The Sun Comes Out'', which premiered in August 2013 in Vancouver and in Toronto in June 2014. Rose was Vancouver's Poet Laureate from 2014 to 2017. Rose's short story collection ''The Octopus has Three Hearts'' was nominated for the 2021 Giller Prize. Personal life Rose grew up on Hornby Island (British Columbia), Vancouver, Anacortes and Seattle.Email from Rose, dated August 28, 2010 In the mid-1990s, she lived and worked in Japan for a year. She has worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Plett
Casey Plett (born June 20, 1987) is a Canadian writer, best known for her novel '' Little Fish'' and Giller Prize-nominated short story collection ''A Dream of a Woman''. Personal life Plett was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in a Mennonite family in Morden, Manitoba. She attended high school in Eugene, Oregon and later moved to Portland for college and New York for graduate school. She currently lives in Windsor, Ontario. Career Plett previously wrote a regular column about her gender transition for ''McSweeney's Internet Tendency''."Winnipeg author mines her experiences and those of other trans women in fearless collection of short stories". ''Winnipeg Free Press'', June 19, 2014. She is a book reviewer for the ''Winnipeg Free Press'' and has published work in ''Rookie'', ''Plenitude'', ''The Walrus'', and ''Two Serious Ladies''. In addition to her work as an author she is the co-editor with Cat Fitzpatrick of ''Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Zomparelli
Daniel Zomparelli is a Canadian writer from Vancouver, British Columbia."Local poet publishes unique literary magazine; Publication Poetry is Dead focuses on young writers from across the country". ''Burnaby Now'', January 9, 2013. He is married to American screenwriter Gabe Liedman Gabe Liedman is an American television writer, producer, and actor known for his work on ''PEN15'', ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'', and ''Inside Amy Schumer''. He is the showrunner of Netflix animation series ''Q-Force'' and the first season of ''PEN15'' .... A 2006 graduate of Simon Fraser University, he worked for the magazine '' Adbusters'' before becoming founding editor of the poetry magazine ''Poetry Is Dead''. He has since published the poetry collections ''Davie Street Translations'' and ''Rom Com'', and the short fiction collection ''Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person''. ''Everything Is Awful'' was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and won the 2018 ReLit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Josef Grubisic
Brett Josef Grubisic (born 1963) is a Canadian author, editor, and sessional lecturer of English at the University of British Columbia. Education He obtained his bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Victoria (B.A., M.A.) and completed his PH.D. from the University of British Columbia. Career Grubisic has edited the anthology of gay male pulp fiction, which is a collection of stories that represent lives outside the urban middle-class mainstream. He has also co-edited an anthology of upcoming Canadian writers featuring acclaimed writers such as Annabel Lyon, Steven Heighton, Camilla Gibb, Michael Turner, and Larissa Lai. This anthology aims to redress an absence which the editors claim to have noticed in Canadian literature: sexually frank fiction. Grubisic's debut novel, ''The Age of Cities'', was published in 2006 and was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. Set predominantly in the late 1950s, the novel-within-a-novel traces the uncertain e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amber Dawn
Amber Dawn is a Canadian writer, who won the 2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an emerging lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender writer."Vancouver's Amber Dawn wins LGBT literary award" , June 26, 2012. A writer, filmmaker, and performance artist based in , British Columbia, Dawn published her '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Blythe
Ali Blythe is a Canadian poet and editor. He is author of two poetry collection exploring trans-poetics: ''Twoism'' and ''Hymnswitch'', both of which were finalists for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In 2017, he was recipient the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ writers. A graduate of the University of Victoria, he is the former editor of the literary magazine''The Claremont Review''. His newest poetry book, ''Stedfast'', is forthcoming fall 2023 with Goose Lane Editions. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. T .... References 21st-century Canadian poets Canadian male poets Canadian magazine editors Canadian LGBT poets Transgender male writers Canadian transgender writers Poets from Vancouver University of Victoria alumn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |