(Photo: Edith MacEachern)

Susan Ioannou

Born in Toronto, Susan Ioannou has a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Toronto. Over the past 25 years, she has variously taught writing for the Toronto Board of Education, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, and Ryerson University, and served as Associate Editor of Cross-Canada Writers' Magazine. In 1985, she founded Wordwrights Canada, where she created The Poetry Tutorial writers' correspondence course, recently transformed into the online Lessons in Writing the Poem.  While Susan's current focus is her own creative work and editing, through Wordwrights Canada she continues to provide links to student writing resources and contests at http://www3.sympatico.ca/susanio/WWCcomp.html.
 

Awards
Norma Epstein Foundation Award for Poetry, 1965.
Arts Scarborough City Poetry Contest Winner, 1987.
Media Club of Canada Memorial Award, 1990.
Okanagan Short Story Award, 1997.

 

Selected Publications
Spare Words. (Pierian Press, 1984).
Motherpoems.(Wordwrights Canada, 1985).
Familiar Faces/Private Griefs. (Wordwrights Canada, 1986).
Clarity Between Clouds. (Goose Lane Editions, 1991).
Read-aloud Poems. (Wordwrights Canada, 1992).
Where the Light Waits. (Ekstasis Editions, 1996).
A Real Farm Girl. (Hodgepog Books, 1998).
A Magical Clockwork: The Art of Writing the Poem. (Wordwrights Canada, 2000).

Coming Home (An Old Love Story). (Leaf Press, 2004).

 

Selected Anthologies
Celebrating Canadian Women. (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1989).
Vintage'94. (Quarry Press, 1995).

          Canadian Poems for Canadian Kids. (Subway Books, 2005).

 

Books in Print
Ioannou, Susan
Clarity Between Clouds: Poems of Midlife. Goose Lane Editions, 1991. $12.95 ISBN: 0-86492-111-X.
Polly's Punctuation Primer, Juvenile, Wordwrights Canada,1994, $12.95, ISBN 0-920835-11-2, $12.95.
Where the Light Waits. Ekstasis Editions, 1996. $12.95 ISBN 0-921215-96-7.
A Real Farm Girl, Juvenile Fiction, Hodgepog Books,1998, ISBN 1-895836-52-2, $6.95.
Read-aloud Poems: For Students from Elementary through Senior High School. Wordwrights Canada, Revised Edition, 2001, $6.95, ISBN: 0-920835-10-4.
A Magical Clockwork: The Art of Writing the Poem. Wordwrights Canada, 2000. $16.95 ISBN 0-920835-12-0.

Coming Home (An Old Love Story), Leaf Press, 2004. $10.00 ISBN 0-9732765-6-8.

 

Susan Ioannou, c/o Wordwrights Canada, PO Box 456, Station O, Toronto, ON M4A 2P1

http://www3.sympatico.ca/susanio/
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/ioannou/index.htm  

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