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CV Safarik 2015.Cwk ALLAN SAFARIK Books Swedes’ Ferry, (novel), Coteau Books, 2013, 2014 Famous Roadkill, (poetry),Hagios Press, 2012 Bluebacks and Silver Brights: A Lifetime in the B.C. Fisheries From Bounty To Plunder (non fiction), ECW Press, 2012 The Day is a Cold Grey Stone, (poetry), Hagios Press, 2010 Yellowgrass, (poetry), Hagios Press, 2008 Notes From The Outside: Episodes from an Unconventional Life, (memoirs), Hagios Press, 2006 When Light Falls From The Sun, (poetry), Hagios Press, 2005 Blood of Angels, (poetry), Thistledown Press, 2004 Bird Writer's Handbook, (poetry), Exile Editions, 2002 How I Know The Sky Is A River (selected and new shorter poems 1978-1998), Hagios Press, 1999 All Night Highway, (poetry), Black Moss Press, 1996 On the Way to Ethiopia, (poetry), Polestar Press, 1991 Advertisements for Paradise, (poetry), Oolichan Books, 1986 God Loves Us Like Earthworms Love Wood, (poetry), Porcupine's Quill, 1983 The Naked Machine Rides On, (poetry), Blackfish Press, 1980 The Heart is Altered, (poetry), Blackfish Press, 1979 Mock Java,(non fiction), Bantam, General, Seal,1978 Green Light Stones and Trees, (poetry), Cold Turkey Press, 1977 Okira, (selected translations from the text of ), (poetry), Blackfish Press, 1975, 1977 Mind Lyric, Allan Safarik & Wayne Luckmann, (poetry), Spring Rain Press, 1971 Quotations on the Jays, co-editor, Pulp Press, 1993 Quotations on the Great One, co-editor, Pulp Press, 1992 Quotations of Chairman Cherry, co-editor, Pulp Press, 1992 Quotations of Chairman Ballard, editor, Pulp Press, 1989 Vancouver Poetry (anthology), editor, Polestar Press, 1986 __________________________________________________________________________ Broadsheets The 23rd Hole, Peter Gzowksi Golf Tournaments for Literacy, The Ottawa Citizen, 2004 Kroptkin Meets Marx on the Summit of Mt. Hood, Dreadnaught, (National Book Festival), 1982 The Literary Storefront Broadsheet, Blackfish Press, 1980 The One Eyed Song of Love, Leonard Brett, 1980 Yellow and the Grave Sea, Seattle Pacific Aquarium, 1979 Yellow and the Grave Sea, Greenpeace, 1978 Do Birds Live in a Blue World? Dreadnaught, 1977 Red Bandanna On the Night Train, Blackfish Press, 1976 Icarus, private, 1972 Li Po, private, 1971 Anthologies Poet to Poet, Guernica Press, Guernica Editions, 2012 A Verse Map of Vancouver, ed George McWhirter, Anvil Press, 2009 West Coast River 2006 Calendar, Englishman River Watershed Rccovery Plan, 2005 Saskatchewan Writers (Lives Past and Present), Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2004 Listening to the Ear in the Heart, St Peters Press, 2004 Line in the Landscape, Tangent Press, 2000 Onward & Upwards , Bluefield Press, 2000 That Sign of Perfection, Black Moss, 1995 Vancouver: Soul of a City, Douglas & McIntyre, 1986 Lords of Winter and of Love, Exile Editions, 1983 World Literary Anthology, Ginn, 1981 To Say the Least, Press Porcepic, 1979 New: West Coast, WCR/Intermedia, 1977 Western Windows, Comcept, 1977 The West Coast Experience, McMillan, 1976 Skookum Wawa, Oxford University Press, 1976 ______________________________________________________________________________ Periodicals and Newspapers Alive, The Antigonish Review, Appalachian Review, Bastard Press, Bruises, Black Apple, Books In Canada, Cairn, Canada Goose, Canadian Literature, The Canadian Forum, Copperfield, Dalmo'ma, Dandelion, Event, Everyday Poems,Exile, Far Point, Fiddlehead, Florida Quarterly, Fragments, Grain, Humboldt Journal, Inscape, Jewish Dialogue, Karaki, Malahat Review, Nashwaak Review, NeWest Review, Northern Light, Phoenix, Prairie Fire, Poetry Canada Review, Prairie Journal of Canadian Poetry, Prism International, Quarry, The Reader, Raffia, Raincoast Chronicles, Rivers Bend Review, River King Poetry Supplement, Repository, Salt, Sound Heritage, Spit Ball, Spring Rain, South Dakota Review, The Peak, The Society,Tamerack Review, The Toronto Citizen, The Toronto Globe & Mail, Vanguard, Voices International, Vancouver Review, The Vancouver Province, The Vancouver Sun (Saturday Review), Western People, West Coast Review, Waves, Zest ______________________________________________________________________________ Awards Winner Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry (in honour of Anne Szumigalski), 2005 Winner John V. Hicks Long Manuscript Award (Memoirs), Weyerhauser, 2003 Finalist Saskatchewan Book Awards, (fiction), 2013. Finalist Saskatchewan Book Award (non-fiction), 2006 Finalist Saskatchewan Book Award (publishing in education), 2006 Finalist Saskatchewan Book Awards: (poetry), 1997, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2008 Saskatchewan Arts Board Writing Grant: 1996, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2013 Salt Air Poetry Prize, (Victoria), 1997 Sterling Newspaper Writing Award, 1997 Saskatchewan Writers Guild Poetry Award, 1996 Saskatchewan Writers Guild Non-Fiction Award, 1994 British Columbia Writing Grant, 1992 City of Vancouver Centennial Book Award, 1986 Canada Council Writing Grant, 1984 Editorial, Documentary and Interpretive Writing Contracts Editor: The History of Naming Cows, Mitch Spray, Hagios Press, 2012 Editor: Waiting For The Gulf Stream, Bert Almon, Hagios Press, 2010 Editor: About Pictures, (art book), TerryFenton, Hagios Press, 2009 Editor: Gabriel’s Beach, Neil McLeod, Hagios Press, 2008 Editor: Cantos For Wolverine Creek, Brenda Schmidt, Hagios Press, 2008 Editor: Interim: Essays & Mediations, Patrick Friesen, (essays) Hagios Press, 2006 Editor: Songs To Kill A Wihtikow, Neal McLeod, Hagios Press, 2005 Editor/Consultant: Prairie Phoenix, (non fiction), Anna Leighton and Bonnie, Lawrence, Nature Saskatchewan, 2005 Co-editor: Line In The Landscape and Dust and Sky Line, (anthologies), (with Maury Wrubeleski and Anna Marie McKenzie), Tangent Press, 2000 Editor: The True Intrepid: William Stephenson and the Unknown Agents, (non fiction), Timberholme, 1998 Editor: The Olive Diary, W.H.T. Olive, (non fiction), Timberholme, 1998 Writer/Editor: Kisewatotatowin Aboriginal Parenting Handbook, Health Canada (Cree editors: Stan Cuthand and Mary Lee),1996 (reprinted 1998) Editor: The Manito Lake Oral History Research Project, Manito Lake Historical Association, 1996 Writer: The La Loche Project, (an investigation in audio, video, art, and storytelling (with Virginia Loewen to produce traditional Dene learning materials for pre-school and elementary students), 1996 Editor: Wanuskewin Guide Book, Wanuskewin Heritage Park, 1995 Reconnecting the Storytelling Circle (with Wes Fine Day at the Broadway Theatre), Wanuskewin, 1994. Editor for Publishers (1972-1996): North Book, Jim Green, The Age of the Bird, Pat Lowther, Disasters of the Sun, Dorothy Livesay, Face, Seymour Mayne, On the Bearpaw Sea, Al Purdy, Venus In Furs, John Glassco, On Flower Wreath Hill, Kenneth Rexroth, Poems of French Canada, FR Scott, Fossil Ground At Phantom Creek, Brian Brett, Stone Diary, Pat Lowther, Ice Age, Dorothy Livesay, Being On The Moon, Marie Annhart Baker, God's Blue Morris, Nils Hav, Crossings, Betty Lambert, Whyla Falls, George Eliot Clarke, Khufu the Wonder Cat, Anita Lever, Circus Dogs, Tom Douglas, Cowboy Up, Harvey Mawson, The Death of Francisco Franco, Albert Moritz, Between the Root and the Flower, Albert Moritz, The Forest, Franz Hoek (Denmark), God’s Blue Morris, Neils Hav (Denmark) Editorial: Publishers (editing, design, book projects 1974-94)) Dreadnaught Press, , Oxford University Press, Polestar Press, Crane Editions, Cold Turkey Press Video Documentaries: The Vancouver Reading (with Tom Graf). Canada Pavilion, 1986. Emily Carr: The Enchanted Forest, National Museum, 1978. Documentaries: The Bloody Sunday Riot; 1936, National Museum, 1976. Radio Documentaries: Joe Wallace (with Dorothy Livesay) CBC, Winnipeg, 1975: Pat Lowther: Woman, Mother, Artist, Gzowski on FM, CBC, 1975. Writer: Writer In The Schools (BC), 1975-1981, National Museum Program. Editorial: CV 2 (format and design), Winnipeg, 1975 Inagural issue: Interview of Joe Wallace by Allan Safarik and Dorthy Livesay Editorial Staff: Canadian Review, 1974-1976, (Books and Popular Culture) Editor: Inscape (Canadian Issue), Arizona, 1975 Editorial Staff: Toronto Citizen Book Section, 1973 Editorial Assistant: World Shakespeare Bibliography, Simon Fraser University, 1972-73 Editorial Ast: Bibliography of Canadian Literature, Simon Fraser, 1971-72 _______________________________________________________________________ Other Activities Featured Writer, Creartive Saskatchewan Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2014 Feastured Writer, High Plains Books Festival, Billings, Montana, 2014 Mentor, University of Saskatchewan Creative Writing Department, MFA program, 2014 Word on the Street, Francis Morrison Library, September, 2012, 2013, 2014 Broadcast: Speaking of Poetry, Interview, John Cunningham, CKUW, 95.9FM, 2011 Judge: CBC Radio's Youth-Write for Radio competition, 2009 Interview: The Life and Poetry of John Newlove, (documentary film), Robert McTavish, 2006 Broadcast: The Animal/Man Poems, Between The Covers, CBC Radio, 2005 Performer: South Alberta Fair, Ft MacLeod, Alberta, 2005 Broadcast: Summer Breeze, Gallery, CBC Radio, Regina, 2005 Poet Laureate: Peter Gzowski Invitational Golf Tournaments For Literacy (16th annual), Ottawa, 2004 Broadcast: Poetry Canada Face Off, CBC Radio, Regina, 2004 Interview: Disasters Of The Century, (documentary feature film), Partners In Motion, 2004 Jury: The Canada Council, Festivals, Public Readings and Residencies, 2003 Interview : Water Marks (documentary feature film), Anne Henderson, The Passionate Eye, CBC Television, 2002 Writer-in-Residence: Estevan, 2003 Featured Writer: Festival of Words, Moose
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