Joelle Barron
Canadian poet and activist
Joelle Barron is a Canadian poet and activist, whose debut poetry collection Ritual Lights was published in 2018.[1] The book was a longlisted nominee for the Gerald Lampert Award in 2019,[2] and Barron was a shortlisted finalist for the Writers' Trust of Canada's 2019 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers.[3]
Barron, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, lives in Kenora, Ontario, where they are active as an organizer of the local LGBTQ youth group and the Kenora Pride festival.[4]
References
- ^ Annick MacAskill, "Rituals of Healing and Survival: A Review of Joelle Barron’s Ritual Lights". Plenitude, January 31, 2019.
- ^ Ryan Porter, "League of Canadian Poets announces 2019 Book Awards longlists". Quill & Quire, April 1, 2019.
- ^ "Joelle Barron, Lindsay Nixon, Casey Plett named finalists for $5K LGBTQ emerging writers prize". CBC Books, May 7, 2019.
- ^ "Kenora Pride announces dates". Lake of the Woods Enterprise, March 2, 2017.
External links
- Official website
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Recipients of the Dayne Ogilvie Prize
- Michael V. Smith (2007)
- Zoe Whittall (2008)
- Debra Anderson (2009)
- Nancy Jo Cullen (2010)
- Farzana Doctor (2011)
- Amber Dawn (2012)
- C. E. Gatchalian (2013)
- Tamai Kobayashi (2014)
- Alex Leslie (2015)
- Leah Horlick (2016)
- Kai Cheng Thom (2017)
- Ben Ladouceur (2018)
- Jas M. Morgan (2019)
- Arielle Twist (2020)
- Jillian Christmas (2021)
- Francesca Ekwuyasi (2022)
- Anuja Varghese (2023)
- Brian Francis, John Miller (2008)
- Greg Kearney (2009)
- Lisa Foad, George K. Ilsley (2010)
- Dani Couture, Matthew J. Trafford (2011)
- Mariko Tamaki (2012)
- Anand Mahadevan, Barry Webster (2013)
- Rae Spoon, Proma Tagore (2014)
- Casey Plett, Vivek Shraya (2015)
- Gwen Benaway, Jia Qing Wilson-Yang (2016)
- Ali Blythe, Eva Crocker (2017)
- Trish Salah, Joshua Whitehead (2018)
- Joelle Barron, Casey Plett (2019)
- Robyn Maynard, Smokii Sumac (2020)
- Kama La Mackerel, jaye simpson (2021)
- Bilal Baig, Matthew James Weigel (2022)
- Gabriel Cholette, Amanda Cordner and David Di Giovanni (2023)
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