Sharon Berg – Surrey Muse

Sharon Berg is a poet, author and educator who has just launched her debut collection of short fiction, Naming the Shadows (Porcupine’s Quill, September 2019). Her poetry collections include To a Young Horse (Borealis Press, 1979), The Body Labyrinth (Coach House Press, 1984), and a number of chapbooks. Her work has been published in Quarry, The Fiddlehead and The Malahat Review. Sharon runs an international literary e-zine and chapbook press, Big Pond Rumours, that she established in 2006. Most of her work focuses on First Nations history and education. Sharon lives in Sarnia, Ontario.

Visit Sharon’s website
https://sharonbergauthor.com/
Contact Sharon
editor@big-pond-rumours.com

At the November 22 gathering of Surrey Muse, Sharon will be the Visiting Booksigning Author. More about the event is here: nov-22-gathering

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Naava Smolash – Surrey Muse

Naava Smolash is the author of Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture (AK Press 2019), which grew out of her viral online essay ‘The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture.’ Naava holds a PhD in English Literature from Simon Fraser University, and is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio. Her work appears in academic and popular publications including Studies in Canadian Literature, West Coast Line, Briarpatch, Everyday Feminism, and The University of Toronto Quarterly. A longtime community organizer, she was a member of the No One is Illegal-Vancouver collective from 2005-2008 and the Media Democracy Day-Vancouver collective from 2008-2010. Current projects include a speculative fiction manuscript entitled Cipher. Originally from Montreal, Naava lives in East Vancouver and teaches in the English department at Douglas College.

Read more about Naava’s book
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View her article
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Contact Naava Smolash
naava.smolash@gmail.com

At the September 27 gathering of Surrey Muse, Naava will be the Booksigning Author. More information about the event is here: september-27-2019-gathering

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Craig Wilson Ruttle – Surrey Muse

A portrait of Craig Wilson Ruttle by Tyrone (at age 5)

My first book of poems was written while raking leaves
on Thetis Island. Many of the poems in my latest book came
into being while walking alone in the forest after dark
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Craig Wilson Ruttle is the author of two collections of poems. His latest book titled ‘In Praise of Bombast‘ was launched by Silver Bow Publishing in 2018. His first collection ‘So if I built a bird’s nest in the middle of the light‘ was published by Ekstasis Editions (Palimscest Press) in 1986.

At the January 25 gathering of Surrey Muse, Craig will be the Featured Poet. More on the event is here: january-25-2019-gathering

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Aidan Chafe – Surrey Muse

Aidan Chafe is a public school teacher, author and poet. His debut collection of poems Short History of Light is published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in CV2, EVENT and The Maynard. He lives in Burnaby, BC.

More about Aidan is here
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Contact Aidan
aidan_chafe@yahoo.ca

At the August 24 gathering of Surrey Muse, Aidan will be the Featured Poet. More information about the event is here:
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Joan B. Flood – Surrey Muse

Joan B. Flood is a novelist and a short story writer who has recently launched her second novel ‘Left Unsaid’ (Signature Editions 2017). Her first title ‘New Girl’, a Young Adult novel, won the Orpheus Fiction Contest, and it was published in the USA by Musa Publishing. Her short story ’87’ won honorable mention in The Binnacle Ninth Annual Ultra-Short Story Competition 2012. Her work has appeared in various anthologies in Canada, USA and Australia. She has also published some of her writings as Joan Bridget. Joan grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and lived in France and England before settling in Canada. She spent some years in Ottawa, Toronto and Hamilton before arriving in Vancouver, where she now lives.

Visit Joan’s website
joanbflood.com
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joanbflood@gmail.com

At the April 27 gathering of Surrey Muse, Joan will be the Featured Author. More information about the event is here:
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