"Squeezing through the cracks, searching for the sunlight, the artist manages to blossom."
David Fraser's Schedule, Appearances and Publishing Credits
David Fraser is the editor of the acclaimed literary, dark fiction, poetry magazine, Ascent Aspirations Magazine. David belongs to the Canadian Poetry Association and is the regional director for the BC islands for the Federation of BC Writers. Along with other writers and poets on Vancouver Island he plans in the future to establish an on-going print and spoken word reading series. David's short fiction and poetry have been published in a number of journals and magazines in print and on the internet. Samples of his writing can be found through the personal link as well as via the poetry and fiction links. David's first collection of poetry, Going to the Well is available through Ascent Aspirations Publishing.
David has read new work and poetry from his first collection Going to the Well at the Nanaimo Harbourfront Library in April 2005 and in July 2005 at the Victoria School of Writing with John Gould and Sheri-D Wilson.
David Fraser has had work published in Mimesis, In Complete,
Windings, In Writing Group,
The Starlite Cafe,
Kookamonga Square, Above Ground Testing, ,
Poetry Exchange, , Wilmington Blues, ,
Steel Point Quarterly, ,
Expressions 30, ,
Outer Rim, ,
Dream Forge, ,
Circle Magazine,
The Muse Apprentice Guild ,
Ascent Magazine,
. Lunatic Chameleon (April/May 2003),
The Writer's Hood (Fall 2003),
Turbula (Fall 2003 and August 2005),
Locust Magazine (Sept. 2003),
Fiction on the Web,
Canadian Poets on the Web,
Ydgrasil, Drifters
Oasis (2004),
Two poems, " Alone and Lost and Out of Love" and " A View from All Souls Prison" appear in the anthology, Sharing the Dark, Encounters with the Abyss, collected and edited by Katherine L. Gordon, and published by Passion Among the Cacti Press ,2005 Contact Publisher
Two poems "Our Windows" and "Making Bread" published in print magazine Poetry Canada Mar-May 2006 and two poems "Our Windows" and "Setting Goals" published in the Anthology The Future Looks Bright (2006) Publisher
Lyrics from one poem have been published and performed through Ex Tenebris. In the past David has written a weekly newspaper column in the Beeton Record. He has taught English and Ceative Writing. He resides now on the left coast of Canada and is currently a full time writer.
Contact 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.
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