David Fraser's Schedule, Appearances and Publishing Credits
"Squeezing through the cracks, searching for the sunlight, the artist manages to blossom."
Schedule David Fraser Book Launch at Planet Earth Poetry OCTOBER 19, 2007 ARLENE PARE & DAVID FRASER ARLENE PARE reads from her first book of poetry, Paper Trail. Nanaimo Poet, DAVID FRASER, founder of Ascent Aspirations, reads from his book of poetry, Running Down the Wind. October 25th WordStorm, The Bombay Lounge at
The Acme Food Co., 14 Commercial St., Nanaimo BC, 7:00 - 9:00 - Storm Reader November 29th WordStorm, The Bombay Lounge at
The Acme Food Co., 14 Commercial St., Nanaimo BC, 7:00 - 9:00 - Host/Organizer David Fraser read with Glen Sorestad, Saturday March 31, 2007 at the Hills Native Art in Nanaimo.
Also David's second poetry collection Running Down the Wind will
be out in May 2007. David has recently been a part of a Canadian/Australian collaboration of writers
organized and published by Les Wicks.
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's second collection of poetry, Running Down the Wind is due to be launched in the spirng of 2007. 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: Salamander Books in Ladysmith,
Falconer Books in Nanaimo,
The Blue Heron in Comox, The Laughing Oyster in Courtney. Tanners in Sydney, Munro Books in Victoria, Volume One in Duncan, Salamander Books in Ladysmith,
Falconer Books in Nanaimo and the Blue Heron and Laughing Oyster Bookstores in Comox and Courtenay
carry David Fraser's collections and Ascent Aspirations Magazine print anthologies.
Ascent Aspirations Magazine
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