Gary Hyland

Gary Hyland, a Moose Jaw activist, writer and editor, serves on the boards of three organizations which he founded - Moose Jaw Arts in Motion, Festival of Words, and ArtSchool Saskatchewan. He also serves on the board of SaskFilm. A founding member of Coteau Books and Sage Hill Writing Experience, he has taught creative writing at the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts and at the Prairie Winds Writers' Conference in South Dakota.

 

Awards
Saskatchewan Writers' Guild Literary Award, 1977, 1975, 1981.
Cross Canada Writers' Quarterly, poetry competition, 2nd prize, 1985.
Grain, Postcard Story Competition, honourable mention, 1992.
National Magazine Awards, honourable mention, poetry, 1993.
Prairie Fire, poetry contest, honourable mention, 1995.
Saskatchewan Writers' Guild. Poetry Manuscript Award, 1991, 1995.

NeWest Review satire Contest, First Prize, 2001

 

Selected Publications
Poems from a Loft. (Anak Press, 1974).
Home Street. (Coteau Books, 1975).
Just Off Main. (Thistledown Press, 1982).
100% Cracked Wheat. (Co-editor). (Coteau Books, 1983).
Street of Dreams. (Coteau Books, 1984).
A Sudden Radiance: Saskatchewan Poetry. (Co-editor with Lorna Crozier). (Coteau Books, 1987).
After Atlantis. (Thistledown Press, 1991).
200% Cracked Wheat. (Co-editor). (Coteau Books, 1992).
White Crane Spreads Wings. (Coteau Books, 1996).

 

Selected Anthologies
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You. (Simon & Schuster, 1996).
That Sign of Perfection. (Black Moss Press, 1996).
Heinemann Outcomes. (Rigby Heinemann, Australia, 1996).

 

Books in Print
Hyland, Gary
After Atlantis. Thistledown Press, 1991.
White Crane Spreads Wings. Coteau Books, 1996. $9.95 ISBN 1-55050-106-2.

Gary Hyland, 26 Crocus Rd, Moose Jaw SK S6J 1B5, (306) 692-8540
word.festival@sk.sympatico.ca
www3.sk.sympatico.ca/praifes

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