Current Ascent Aspirations Magazine
David Fraser
Writer, Editor, Publisher
David Fraser lives in Nanoose Bay, on Vancouver Island. He is the founder and editor of Ascent Aspirations Magazine, since 1997. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in 28 journals including Three Candles, Regina Weese, Ardent, and Ygdrasil. He has recently published a collection of his work Going to the Well. This fall The Dark Side of the Billboard, a collection of short fiction will be published. In addition David is editing the first two print issues of Ascent Aspirations Magazine, in the form of an anthology. The two issues will be in print in the fall of 2005 and the winter of 2006. Currently David is the Federation of BC Writers Regional Director for The Islands Region
David Fraser has a BA in English from University of Toronto, and an MEd in adult education from OISE. In Ontario he taught English, Creative Writing Writer's Craft among other subjects at the secondary school level for 30 years. He was the ski school director for High Park Snow School for 8 years. Currently he is a full time writer who also teaches skiing at Mt Washington in the winter.
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About Going to the Well, a poetry collection
This publication is David's first collection of poetry. Whether writing poetry or short fiction, David examines characters struggling with time and entropy, with relationships and with finding meaning in lives often caught up and stagnant in their own existence, their aging and their loss. Many poems deal with the darkside of the human condition as a political protest to man’s inhumanity to man, and to man’s blatant disregard for our greatest resource, Mother Earth. However within this dark perspective there is tenderness and hope and lyrical imagery of what life wonderfully can be.
To read reviews and testimonials for Going to the Well click on the sidebar under "Collections"
To read more poetry and short fiction by David Fraser click on Poetry and Short Fiction respectively.
Samples of Poetry in Going to the Well
Going to the Well can also be purchased at the following bookstores
on Vancouver Island: Fraser & Naylor in Ladysmith, P.B. Cruise in Nanaimo,
Falconer Books in Nanaimo, Mulberry Bush Books in Parksville and Qualicum Beach,
The Blue Heron in Comox, The Laughing Oyster in Courtney and TLC in the Red Gap Plaza in Nanoose Bay.