Terry Jordan (Canadian Writer)
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Terry Jordan is a fiction writer, musician, essaying and dramatist whose stage plays have been produced across the country, in the U.S and Ireland. His book of stories ''It's a Hard Cow'', won a Saskatchewan Book Award and was nominated for the
Commonwealth Book Prize Commonwealth Foundation has presented a number of prizes since 1987. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed of two prizes: the Best Book Prize (overall and regional) was awarded from 1987 to 2011; the Best First ...
. His novel, ''Beneath That Starry Place'' was published internationally. Jordan taught Creative Writing at
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,
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, and was the first Margaret Laurence Fellow at
Trent University Trent University is a public liberal arts university in Peterborough, Ontario, with a satellite campus in Oshawa, which serves the Regional Municipality of Durham. Founded in 1964, the university is known for its Oxbridge college system, sma ...
. In the past he facilitated the Fiction workshop at Sage Hill Writing Experience, served as Writer in Residence at the Saskatoon, Regina and Winnipeg Public Libraries, and
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Publications

*''Been in the Storm So Long'' (novel).
Coteau Books Coteau Books was a small, non-profit literary press based in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It was established in 1975 by Bob Currie, Gary Hyland, Barbara Sapergia and Geoffrey Ursell when they realized that there was little opportunity for Sask ...
, Regina *''We're Already Home'' (play). Wild Sage Press, Regina. *''False Spring''. Letterpress edition. New Leaf Editions, Vancouver. *''Une Constellation d'escrocs''. JC Lattes, Paris, France. *''Beneath That Starry Place'' (novel).
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(Canada), Toronto. U.S. Edition: MacMurray and Beck Publishers, Denver/San Francisco USA. *''It's A Hard Cow'' (short story collection). Thistledown, Saskatoon. *''Numbers''. Pachyderm, Winnipeg. *''Movie Dust''. Small Poetry, San Francisco USA.


References

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