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Meltwater: Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre for the Arts (Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre, 1) - Softcover
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In this first collection of poetry and short fiction from The Banff Centre's Writing Studio program, 41 of the program's most accomplished alumni are gathered in an unforgettable anthology.
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About the Author
Edna Alford is the author of two collections of short fiction, A Sleep Full of Dreams and The Garden of Eloise Loon. She received the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (co-winner) in 1981 and the Marian Engel Award for fiction in 1988. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies including The Oxford Collection of Canadian Short Stories, The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women, Best Canadian Stories and others. She was co-founder and co-editor of Dandelion magazine, fiction editor of Grain magazine (1985-90) and has co-edited the Banff Centre Press anthologies Meltwater, Rip Rap and Intersections. Edna continues to edit and teach fiction as well as work on her own creative writing. She was the writer-in-residence at the Francis Morrison Library in Saskatoon in 2001 and is currently associate director for prose in the Writing Studio at The Banff Centre, in addition to being the program head of Writing With Style.
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The Meltwater collection illuminates small aspects of the human ... and even at times rises to luminosity. J.S. Porter, The Globe and Mail
"The Meltwater collection illuminates small aspects of the human ... and even at times rises to luminosity."--J.S. Porter, The Globe and Mail
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- PublisherBanff Centre Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0920159559
- ISBN 13 9780920159552
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages284
- EditorAlford Edna, McKay Don, Tregebov Rhea
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