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William Bell
William Bell is a developing photographer (pun intended). He is interested in exploring themes and ideas and his best work comes as a result of collaboration. He can we contacted at bell.williamphotography@yahoo.com.
Michelle Bodnar (words editor)
Meet me, Michelle Bodnar, a lovely person who sometimes, accidentally, thinks hateful and ugly things, and the best way I know how to understand it all it is to simply write about it. Or, meet me, Michelle Bodnar, a hateful and ugly person, who sometimes, accidentally, thinks lovely things, and the best way I know how to understand it all is to simply write about it. Cheers for your time.
Liz Clark
I'm a Victoria-based painter, sculptor and sometime photographer who depends heavily on serendipity for inspiration.
Diana Fox
Diana Fox is currently a student at the Alberta College of Art & Design.
Meagan Elizabeth Gartlan
Meagan completed her B.F.A at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec in 2005. Since then Meagan has been making charcoal animations and collage art. Meagan loves to work with environmental and social concepts. She seeks a balance between obscurity, surreality, and reality. Everything is open for interpretation.
Gary James
If Gary could be any animal, he would choose to be a giraffe. That way, he would have a better perspective on things.
Shaun James
Born in England, I have a background in Computer Programming and Graphic Arts.Generally, my Art and Poetry reflects my life's quest to understand Chaos, Beauty and Oneness.
My art is a direct study of how Ordered Patterns can be de-constructed into Chaos and returned to recognizable patterns of Beauty, essentially transforming something into many other things of artful beauty through a technique I call "Fractal Dominance" or "Selective Fractal Interference".
My poetry comes from the same spiritual place as my art and is essentially able to capture the essence of a moment, a flash of inspiration or a deep spiritual thought through visually and emotionally evocative wordplay.
The style of my poetry can be best described as "Life or Reality Pros", "Spiritual Pros" or simply put, "IS Poetry". Inquires are welcome: empathic_arts_99 @yahoo.ca
Dale Lee Kwong
Dale Lee Kwong is a regular contributor to splinterswerve (see history). A Calgary based Poet-Playwright, Kwong will be reading at Pages Kensington on Thursday, May 7th @ 7:30pm for filling station’s “flywheel series”.Kwong is particularly excited about a production commissioned by Epcor Centre to celebrate Children’s Day. She invites you to “Mei-Mei’s Dream” on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 6pm and 8pm at the Martha Cohen Theatre. Incorporating music, choir, dance and poetry, “Mei-Mei’s Dream” is the story of a Chinese adoptee who longs for a sister. Mei-Mei dreams about a visit to China, where she discovers that all children are family. On the weekend before the production, Epcor will be hosting public workshops on Chinese kite and lantern making.
Perhaps of interest:
Dale Lee Kwong poem published in Canadian Literature Issue #199
Dale Lee Kwong judges 2009 Calgary Poetry Face-off (photos 7, 9, 10)
Dale Lee Kwong wins 2008 CBC Calgary Poetry Face-off
Dale Lee Kwong video clip from the 2008 Calgary International Spoken Word Festival
Christopher Lawrence
Bouncing through life, Christopher can always be found on a dance floor
somewhere or dancing anywhere on the floor. When that's not happening he's usually on roller blades, a bike, or a stage. Most recently he was seen performing in 'The Ibsen Project' (produced 2006). Since then he has come down with the travel bug. Barely back from Europe, he is now planning trips all over the world. Look out Thailand. Christopher sees the importance in finding pieces of himself in everything he does and encourages practicing life above all else.
Shannon Mackinnon
Shannon MacKinnon is a visual and performance artist who can be found reading erotica at your local cafe hotspots. She also does photography, illustration, and design and can be found at smackgraphixx@yahoo.ca
Wendy Morton
When Wendy Morton's first book of poetry, Private Eye, was published in 2001, she knew she had to find some way to turn her poetry into currency. She had once been stopped by a cop for speeding, read him a poem and escaped a ticket. She was thus convinced of the power of poetry. One day she called up WestJet Airlines, suggested she read poems for the passengers and write poems for them in exchange for flights. After some enthusiastic urging, they said yes, and so she became WestJet's Poet of the Skies. She has turned her poems into the currency that has provided her with a PT Cruiser from DaimlerChrylser, luxurious hotel rooms from The Fairmont Hotels, vitamins from Prairie Naturals, a digital camera from Fuji. She is also sponsored by AbeBooks. The queen, in Alice in Wonderland, says to Alice, "Why, sometimes, I've believed in as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Wendy imagined that poets all across Canada could commit "random acts of poetry" on strangers: read them a poem and give them a book. In 2004, 27 poets across Canada did just that with the sponsorship of AbeBooks, and National Random Acts of Poetry Week was born. It is a project of the Victoria READ Society. This event has occurred annually ever since. She has published three other books of poetry, Undercover and Shadowcatcher, published by Ekstasis Editions. Gumshoe, has just been published by Black Moss Press. She has been an insurance investigator for 25 years. Her memoir, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast was published in 2006 by Emdash Book Publishing. It outlines her journey from private eye to poet to WestJet's Poet of the Skies, DaimlerChrysler's Poet of the Road and how she took poetry public across Canada. Her memoir is her journey into believing the impossible, and making the impossible come true for any dreamer. Website: Wendy Morton
Brenden Joel Reid
Born in Steeltown, Ontario, circa May 26th, 1976. Only son of Neil Reid and Dennice Hall. There was good and evil. I chose the Self. What's it all about? I wanna rule my destiny.
Wendi Seskus-James
In between being thrust from the womb and hurtling toward her demise, Wendi tries to find meaning in life by living it. Recent writing projects include a play about raves ‘Searching for Utopia’ (2005), and script development for ‘The Ibsen Project’ (2006), both with Theatre Utopia. Her day job is also filled with words as a web editor.
Matt Smith
Having graduated from the University of Calgary's Drama program in early 2004, Matt occasionally engages in acting projects with companies such as Theatre Utopia and Creative Nexus, and has been known to fund productions of his own from time to time. He was a regular contributor to the now defunct ezine for twentysomethings, Random Accuracy, and can sometimes be witnessed reading at Red Mile Revenge, a poetry event held First Tuesdays at Tubby Dog on 17th Avenue. He is currently contemplating a variety of different stage/pen names to avoid being confused with "that Dr. Who guy."
Swail
Swail is an Ottawa native who has traveled North America through and through, seeking out truth and inspiration in the nooks and crannies of the land. A born thinker, he uses poetry and music to promote his optimistic philosophies about the nature of the universe, as well as to emote the personal revelations that can't easily be described in essays or conversations.In 2002, he was published for the first time in "The Book of Hope" and "The World Healing Book" (Beyond Borders Press, Reykjavik). He has released two mini-albums of wistful songs, "Fjord" (2002) and "Three Faces" (2007), and is currently in the planning stages of his debut album. Recently, Sal's music and poetry have been published on Calgary based e-zine, splinterswerve.com, as well on his personal website, Dispatches From a No Wave Mind: http://swail.blogspot.com. He's the editor of Screw The Status Quo.com
Chad Williamson (Moments & Monuments)
When Chad is not travelling around photographing the world, he can be found writing, drinking, singing, smoking, and making music.
Niki Zerlina
Niki Zerlina Middleton was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and raised by her grandparents since she was three years old and now is an even mixture between old fashioned values and open minded to new ideas. Niki attended business college and has had a successful career over the last nine years in the insurance industry. As she is driven and always wants to be challenged she decided to go into modeling in July 2008 and eventually left insurance to become a freelance model in November 2009. Since that time, she has been moving forward in leaps and bounds thanks to the help of many great photographers. Niki has decided that her 30's are the best time of her life so far and cannot wait to see what the model world and her future has in store for her.
