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:
Year: 0
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
Services
Editing
- Substantive/Structural Editing
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