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The Writers' Union of Canada provided me with invaluable support at a difficult point in my career when it seemed that all the decision-making power over my work was in the hands of the publishing industry. I will always be grateful for that, as well as for the work that the Union continues to do every day to promote and protect the rights of writers.
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George Elliott Clarke
Photo: Julie Morin 1992
George Elliot Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1960. He studied at the University of Waterloo, Dalhousie, and Queen's. Always a poet, now also a playwright and screenwriter.
E-mail: Member-226@no-mail.no-mail
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c/o Writers' Union of Canada
Publications
Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature. editor. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997.
Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems, 1978-1993. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press, 1994.
Whylah Falls. Victoria, BC: Polestar, 1990.
Awards
Portia White Prize, 1998.
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellowship, 1998.
Archibald Lampman Award for Whylah Falls, 1990.
Poetry Award, Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, 1981.
Eligible for National Public Readings Program :
Yes
