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Brenda Schmidt's new book, Cantos from Wolverine Creek, was published by Hagios Press in April 2008. Work from it appeared in Listening with the Ear of the Heart: Writers at St. Peter's (St. Peter's Press, 2003), Grain (2004), nthposition (2005), Room of One's Own (2005), The Society (2006 and 2008), Northern Poetry Review (2007) and Forget (2008). A selection from it was shortlisted for the 2004 CBC Literary Awards and another selection was shortlisted for the 2006 CBC Literary Awards. Other poems from it will be broadcast on CBC's SoundXchange (forthcoming in the fall of 2008). Brenda's writing has appeared in publications across Canada. Her first collection of poetry, A Haunting Sun (Thistledown Press, 2001), was a finalist for the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry. Her second book, More Than Three Feet of Ice, winner of the 2003 Alfred G. Bailey Prize for Poetry and runner-up for the 2004 John V. Hicks Manuscript Award, was published by Thistledown Press in 2005. Poems from it appeared in Kaleidoscope Journal, Urban Coyote: New Territory, Grain, Other Voices, In Medias Res, Zygote, Room of One's Own and The Harpweaver. For her work in The Harpweaver she was awarded a Harpweaver Prize -- The Canadian Authors Association Prize for Poetry. Another poem from it called "Ectopic Beats" is part of the Greenboathouse Books Variant project and was published as a limited edition broadsheet by Greenboathouse Books in 2003. Suites of poems from it were aired on CBC's Gallery in 2002 and 2004. In 2004, Globe Theatre's On the Line performed Brenda's short play Points of Interest, an adaptation of a long poem from this book. Brenda's paintings have won several awards. Her first series of paintings saw solo exhibitions in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. She is currently at work on a series of watercolors that speak with the poems in her forthcoming book. For all the latest news and events visit Alone on a Boreal Stage, Brenda's blog.
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