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The Union was begun because, in the early '70s, writers had no way of comparing experiences. But the results have been much greater than expected: Public Lending Right, benefits for the institutional copying of our work through Access Copyright, informed contract advice, a network to draw upon, and a collective voice. All writers in Canada have benefited — not only those who have joined the Union and pay their dues.
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Fred Wah
Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939 but grew up in the West Kootenays of B.C. He was one of the founding editors of TISH at UBC. After graduate school in Buffalo, he returned to the Kootenays in the late 1960's and then taught creative writing and poetics at the University of Calgary for many years. He has been editorially involved with a number of literary magazines such as Open Letter and West Coast Line and is on the collective of the Kootenay School of Writing. He has published poetry, short fiction, and criticism. He splits his time between Vancouver and the Kootenays/
