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| Name | Annette Lapointe |
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| Website | annettelapointe.com |
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| Location | Grande Prairie, Alberta |
| Biography | Annette Lapointe was born in Saskatoon and raised in rural Saskatchewan. She received her B.A. (honours) and M.A. from the University of Saskatchewan, and her PhD from the University of Manitoba. She has lived in Saskatoon, Quebec City, St John's, Seoul, Jinju (in South Korea), and Winnipeg. She now lives in Treaty 8 territory and teaches at Northwestern Polytechnic. She has published five books: "Stolen" (2006), "Whitetail Shooting Gallery" (2012), "You Are Not Needed Now" (2017), ". . . And This is the Cure" (2020), and "swim into the north's blue eye" (2023). |
| Publications | books: 2021 . . . And This is the Cure (novel). Anvil Press 2017 You Are Not Needed Now (short story collection). Anvil Press. 2012 Whitetail Shooting Gallery (novel). Anvil Press. 2006 Stolen (novel). Anvil Press. scholarly anthology contributions: 1998 As One Phoenix: Four Seventeenth-Century Women Poets (anthology/textbook). University of Saskatchewan Press. Co-editor under supervising editor Ron Cooley. textbook: literary journal editorship: literary journal publications: 2021 "Starveling." (short fiction) Prairie Fire (April issue) 2018 –Swallow.” (short fiction) The Waggle issue 7 2017 –Scatterheart.” Grain magazine. [43.4] Winter/Spring 2017. (Short story. Submitted for the Journey Prize.) –Recommended Reads: A Wave of Women in Nonfiction.” Read Local BC, brief review/recommendation of I Might Be Nothing by Lara Gilbert, http://www.readlocalbc.ca/2017/10/31/recommended-reads-wave-women/ –How'd We Get All the Way Out Here: Books About Being Places You Didn't Expect,” 49th Shelf, September 12, https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2017/09/142/Annette-Lapointe-How-d-We-Get-All-the-Way-Out-Here 2014 Finalist for LitPOP short story prize. Matrix magazine. (Unpublished short story, –How Clean Is Your House?”) –Agent Provocateur” & –inventory of bad sex / scavengers” (poetry). Black and Blue: Revolution (#4). Fall/winter 2014. –flight” & –magpies in the snow trees” (poetry). The Waggle issue 2 (summer/fall). –The Houses You Can See from Here” (editorial) & –Maybe Sprout Wings” (short fiction). The Waggle issue 1 (winter/spring). 2013 –Clean Streets Are Everyone's Responsibility” (short fiction). The Danforth Review. http://thedanforthreview.blogspot.ca/ (reprinted by McGraw Hill in the iLit digital collection: https://www.ilit.ca/welcome/ ) 2012 –You Are Not Needed Now” (short fiction). Prairie Fire 33.1, Spring 2012. 2011 –thread work” & –Produce (a snuff film)” (poetry). PRISM International 50.1, Fall 2011. 2009 "a very small fairy tale" (prose poem). sub-TERRAIN magazine, Winter/Spring 2009 (issue 51). 2002 "Ground Water" (poem). Room of One's Own magazine, 2002 (25: 1&2). "Fly-In, 1970-74" (poem). Grain magazine, August 2002. 2001 "The Last Hours of the Ice" (short fiction). Capilano Review magazine, Fall 2001. (Winner, Capilano Review Covers Contest) 1999 "Texarkana" (short fiction). sub-TERRAIN magazine, Fall/Winter 1999. (Winner, 9th annual sub-TERRAIN short story contest) 1998 "East of Tessier, SK, -31oC" (poem). Other Voices magazine, Fall 1998. Literary reviews 2018-2022. multiple reviews, New York Journal of Books, https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/search-site/annette%20lapointe |
| Awards | Finalist for 2021 Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction (Alberta Literary Awards) Finalist for 2017 Foreword Indie Short Story Collection Award. Finalist for LitPOP short story prize, 2014. Finalist for McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year, 2013. Shortlisted for ReLit Novel Prize, 2013. Nominated for the 2006 Giller Prize. Winner of two 2006 Saskatchewan Book Awards (First Book, Saskatonian Book). Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer award, 2007. Finalist for Books in Canada First Novel Award, 2006. Globe & Mail Top 5 First Fiction choice, 2006 Capilano Review covers contest winner 2001 9th annual sub-TERRAIN short story contest winner, 1999 |
| Experience | I teach English creative writing at Northwestern Polytechnic. I previously taught creative writing at the University of Winnipeg. 2022 Jury member, Saskatoon Book of the Year (Saskatchewan Book Awards) 2021 Invited Reader, Literary Cabaret, Whistler Writers’ Festival (Oct 14) 2020 Judge, Adult Division, Collins Writing Contest, Grande Prairie Public Library 2018 Invited Reader, Flywheel reading series, Calgary, AB 2015-18 Judge, Adult Division, Collins Writing Contest, Grande Prairie Public Library 2017 Invited Reader, Word on the Street Literary Festival, Saskatoon, SK 2015 Alberta Culture Days author reading, Dixonville, AB (September) 2013 Invited author, Word on the Street Literary Festival, Lethbridge, AB 2012 Western Book Representatives Association Spring Book Fair, invited 2009 Three Days in May (Manitoba Writers' Guild event) reader. Winnipeg, MB. 2008 Judge, High Plains Book Awards, fiction category 2007 Whistler Readers & Writers Festival invited speaker. Whistler, BC. 2006 Thin Air Winnipeg International Writers' Festival reader. Main Stage & Millennium Library readings. Winnipeg, MB. |
| Memberships | Writers' Union of Canada Writers' Guild of Alberta |
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