TWUC member Brendan Coyle 's project on the WWII Japanese occupation of Alaska's Kiska Island has been awarded a grant from the Alaska Humanities Forum. The author spent two months on the remote island recording signs of the Japanese occupation of June 7, 1942 to July 28, 1943.
Member Profile
Susan Mayse
Photo: Stephen Hume 1997
Susan Mayse, a fourth-generation Vancouver Islander, has been writing, editing and teaching for three decades but still misses the cannery. Her fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, and radio and television documentary have been published or performed mainly in Canada and the U.S.A.
E-mail: smayse@gmail.com
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Publications
Awen: a Novel of Early Medieval Wales. Cheney, WA: Eastern Washington UP, 1997.
Earthquake: Surviving the Big One. Edmonton, AB: Lone Pine Publishing, 1992.
Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 1990.
Merlin's Web. Toronto: Irwin Publishing, 1987; New York: Beech Tree Books, 1987.
Awards
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for Ginger.
Crime Writers of Canada, Arthur Ellis Award for True Crime for Ginger.
Runner-up, Crime Writers of Canada, First Novel Award for Merlin's Web.
Shortlisted, Georgette Heyer Award for Historical Fiction for Awen.
Various journalism, editing and film awards.
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I suspected that writers elsewhere were having a massive party while I was alone at my desk. Joining the Writers' Union was like finally getting an invitation.
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