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Dave Margoshes
Location
Saskatoon
Audience Age Groups
Adults
Secondary (Grades 10-12)

Dave Margoshes

Dave Margoshes is a Saskatoon-area writer whose work has appeared widely in Canadian literary magazines and anthologies, including six times in the Best Canadian Stories volumes. He was a finalist for the Journey Prize, Canada's premier short story award, in 2009. He's published over a dozen books, including Dimensions of an Orchard, which won the Anne Szumigalski Poetry Prize at the 2010 Saskatchewan Book Awards, and Bix's Trumpet and Other Stories, which was named Saskatchewan Book of the Year in 2007. He's taught creative writing and led workshops at various locations, and for various age groups, and been writer in residence a number of times, including year-long stints in Saskatoon and Winnipeg. He's been fiction editor of the literary magazines Grain and Dandelion, and was literary editor at Coteau Books for several years. As a freelance editor, he's worked on numerous books of fiction, poetry and nonfiction either through publishers or directly for writers. Coming spring 2014: God Telling a Joke and Other Stories from Oolichan Books.


Workshops Offered

Workshops in fiction and poetry for all levels
Group Size: 6-12
Ages:
for adults

Publications

A Book of Great Worth

Coteau, 2012,

Dimensions of an Orchard

Black Moss, 2010,

The Horse Knows the Way

BuschekBooks, 2009,

Bix's Trumpet and Other Stories

NeWest, 2007,

Drowning Man

NeWest Press, 2003,

Purity of Absence

Beach Holme Publishing, 2001,

I'm Frankie Sterne

NeWest Press, 2000,

Tommy Douglas: Building the New Society

XYZ Publishing, 1999,

We Who Seek: A Love Story

Black Moss Press, 1999,

Fables of Creation

Black Moss Press, 1998,

Long Distance Calls

Coteau Books, 1996,

Nine Lives

Thistledown Press, 1991,

Northwest Passage

Oberon Press, 1990,

Walking at Brighton

Thistledown Press, 1988,

Small Regrets

Thistledown Press, 1986,

Periodicals

Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, etc.
Category: Newspaper/Magazine/Trade Journal
Numerous magazines, including Arc, Border Crossings, Canadian Literature, CV2, Dalhousie Review, Dandelion, Descant, Event, Exile, Fiddlehead, Grain, Malahat Review, New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Prism international, Queen's Quarterly, Windsor Review
Category: Literary Journal

Genres

Fiction
  • Literary
  • Speculative—Fantasy
Non-Fiction
  • Biography
  • General Non-Fiction
  • Journalism
Poetry
  • General
  • Literary

Services

Editing
  • Substantive/Structural Editing
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