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Beth Goobie
Audience Age Groups
Any Age
Adults
Secondary (Grades 10-12)
Middle (Grades 6-9)
Elementary (Grades K - 5)

Beth Goobie

Beth Goobie has won six Saskatchewan Book Awards. She also won the 2001 Canadian Library Young Adult Book Award, and has twice been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. Her many YA novels focus on issues such as bullying, physical and sexual assault, substance abuse, gangs, first love, sexual orientation and the process of learning the balance between rights and responsibilities as a young person comes into her/his own. Beth is also the author of Jason 's Why, a children's high-interest, low vocabulary novel that deals with a nine-year-old boy's first week in a group home. In addition, she has authored three books that deal with ritual abuse and trauma-based mind control programming, titled breathing at dusk (poetry, winner of two Saskatchewan Book Awards), [i]The Only-Good Heart[/i] (fiction) and [i]Scars of Light[/i] (poetry, winner of the 1995 Pat Lowther Award), as well as several articles online. Her latest collection of poetry, Lookin' for Joy, is a fusion of her earlier lyrical style with her years in Saskatoon's spoken word community.


Workshops Offered

Fiction, Poetry
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Can focus on exercises that enhance the writing of fiction or poetry, but is not qualified to teach screenwriting Time length can vary from 60 minutes to several days. (She has taught the Sage Hill Teen Writing Experience workshop) Flexible regarding group size - this would depend upon the needs of the group sponsoring the event
YA, Adult
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Will lead a workshop either for young adults or adults Time length can vary from 60 minutes to several days. (She has taught the Sage Hill Teen Writing Experience workshop) Flexible regarding group size - this would depend upon the needs of the group sponsoring the event

Publications

Before Wings (YA fiction)

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Born Ugly (YA fiction)

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Could I Have My Body Back Now, Please? (short fiction and poetry)

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Fixed (YA fiction)

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Flux (YA fiction)

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Hello Groin (YA fiction)

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Hit and Run (YA high interest, low vocabulary fiction)

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I'm Not Convinced (YA fiction)

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Jason's Why (children's high interest, low vocabulary fiction)

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Kicked Out (YA high interest, low vocabulary fiction)

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Mission Impossible (YA fiction)

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Scars of Light (poetry)

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Something Girl (YA high interest, low vocabulary fiction)

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Sticks and Stones (YA igh interest, low vocabulary fiction)

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The Colours of Carol Molev (YA fiction)

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The Dream Where the Losers Go (YA fiction)

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The Girls Who Dream Me

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The Good, The Bad, and the Suicidal (YA fiction)

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The Lottery (YA fiction)

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The Only-Good Heart (short fiction)

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Who Owns Kelly Paddik? (YA high interest, low vocabulary fiction)

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Plays

The Face Is the Place (one-act YA play)
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Genres

Fiction
  • General
Non-Fiction
  • Journalism
Poetry
  • General
  • Literary
Scriptwriting
  • Stage

Services

Genre Writing
  • Literary/Creative Fiction
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