Alice Major
- Alice Major emigrated from Scotland at the age of eight and grew up in Toronto before coming west to work as a weekly newspaper reporter in British Columbia. She now lives in Edmonton. She is past president of the Writers Guild of Alberta and the League of Canadian Poets and a past chair of the Edmonton Arts Council. In June, 2005, she was named Edmonton's first poet laureate.
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- Awards
Fourth Alberta Writing for Youth Competition, winner.
Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Competition, 1998.
Poets Corner Award, 1998
- The Malahat Review long poem competition (co-winner), 2001
Pat Lowther Award, shortlisted, 2001
- Selected Publications
The Chinese Mirror. (Irwin Publishing, 1988) ISBN:
0-7725-1707-X
Time Travels Light. (Rowan Books, 1992) ISBN:
1-895836-01-8
Lattice of the Years. (Bayeux Arts Inc., 1998)
ISBN: 1-896209-25-4
Tales for an Urban Sky. (Broken Jaw Press, 1999) ISBN: 1-896647-11-1
Corona Radiata. (St. Thomas Press, 2000) ISBN:
0-9685339-3-0
Some Bones and a Story. (Wolsak and Wynn, 2001) ISBN:
0-919897-74-6
No Monster (Victoria,
Poppy Press, 2002) ISBN: 1-894603-03-06
The Occupied World (University of Alberta Press, 2006)
ISBN: 13: 987-0-88864-469-5
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- Selected Anthologies
Vintage'97/98. (Quarry Press, 1998)
Going it Alone: Plays by Women for Solo Performance. (Nuage
Editions, 1997)
What if...? Amazing stories, Selected by Monica Hughes.
(Tundra Books, 1998)
Threshold: An Anthology of
Contemporary Writing from Alberta (University of Alberta Press,
1999)
Poetry and Spiritual Practice:
Selections from Contemporary Canadian Poets (St. Thomas Press,
2002)
Books in Print
Major, Alice
Time Travels Light. (Rowan Books, 1992) ISBN:
1-895836-01-8
Lattice of the Years (Bayeux Arts, Calgary,
1998)
ISBN: 1-896209-25-4, $12.95
Scenes from the Sugar Bowl Café, (BS Poetry Society, 1998) ISBN: 0-9694127-4-6
Tales for an Urban Sky (Broken Jaw Press,
1999)
ISBN: 1-896647-11-1, $13.95
Corona Radiata. (St. Thomas Press, 2000) ISBN:
0-9685339-3-0
Some Bones and a Story (Wolsak & Wynn,
2001)
ISBN: 0-919897-74-6, $13.95
No Monster (Victoria,
Poppy Press, 2002) ISBN: 1-894603-03-06
The Occupied World (University of Alberta Press,
2006) ISBN:
987-0-88864-469-5, $24.95
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- Alice Major, 10985-123 Street, Edmonton AB T5M 0E1
Email:
alice.major@shaw.ca
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/major/index.htm
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