David Fraser's Schedule, Appearances and Publishing Credits


Going to the Well, a collection of poetry by David Fraser, cover

"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.

Planet Earth 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.

Collaboration Site

Glen Sorestad

WordStorm Link

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), Perigee (May 2004 and September 2004), Poetry Super Highway (April 2004 Holocaust Issue), Ardent (August 2004),  Regina Weese (September 2004),  Three Candles (October 2004),  Bewidering Stories (Fall/Winter 2004/2005),  Underground Voices(Dec. 2004),  Spitfire Poetics ( May 2005),  Alien Flower ( May 2005),  Poetry Super Highway (May 2005 Holocaust Issue),  Voices for Africa( May 2005),  Illogical Muse(Oct.2005),  Mg Version (Nov.2005),  Fireweed (Dec.2005),  A Little Poetry (Dec. 2005),  Palabras Press (Nov.2005, Dec. 2006),  Long Short Story (Dec.2005 & April 2006),  CZH (Dec.2005),  Wah(Dec.2005),  Zygote in My Coffee(Jan. 9,2006),  Word Play(Feb. 2006),  Tryst(June.2006),  Lit parlour - Experimental Candy Ezine(Summer.2006),  Outsider Ink (summer 2006) a little poetry (spring/summer 2006) Turbula (summer 2006) Ygdrasil (fall/winter forthcoming) Quills Summer 2006 Monday's Poem, Leaf Press, January 2007

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
Ascent Aspirations Magazine
Links Personal Poetry Fiction Magazine Links Ascent Aspirations Publishing
The Affilitate Authors Bookstore

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.

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