Morris House Reading Series 2006-2007

These were the writers who came to Bishop's University for the Morris House Reading Series between 2006-2007:

Scott Griffin

Scott Griffin is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's most generous poetry awards in 2000. Griffin is the chairman, director and majority shareholder of two Canadian manufacturing companies. Griffin is also chairman, director and majority shareholder since 2002 of publisher House of Anansi Press/Groundwood Books. He is also Chancellor of Bishop's University, chairman of the Governors of Sedbergh School in Canada and a director of DGC Entertainment Ventures Corp. Griffin is on several NGO boards, as a director of Canadian Executive Services Overseas (CESO), a volunteer advisor to CESO and a director of African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) Canada. In 2006, Griffin published a memoir entitled My Heart is Africa that recounted his two-year aviation adventure starting in 1996, working for the Flying Doctors Service in Africa. All royalties from the sale of the book are donated to the AMREF Flying Doctors Service. The book was named to the Globe and Mail top 100 for 2006.

Corey Frost

Over the last ten years, Corey Frost has been a featured spoken word performer at festivals and events across Canada and the US, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. He has toured twice with the North American indy-culture showcase The Perpetual Motion Roadshow. His first book, My Own Devices (2002), was short-listed for the Quebec Writers Federation Awards and the ReLit Awards. He has since published two more books, The Worthwhile Flux (2004), and My Own Devices: Airport Version (2006). His work has been published in Matrix, Geist, The Walrus, and other magazines, and his performances have been aired on the CBC, the ABC, and local stations around the world. He is currently writing a doctoral dissertation at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, entitled The Omni-directional Microphone: Towards a Theory of Spoken Word.

Robert Moore

After dropping out of high school at 17, and working for seven years as a poster artist, reporter, steel worker, and machine fitter's apprentice, Robert Moore enrolled in McMaster University and eventually earned a doctorate in English. While in graduate school, he began working as a teacher, actor, director and playwright. A professor of English at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, his poetry has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Wascana Review, Ink Magazine, The New Quarterly, Canadian Author, Prairie Fire, Maisonneuve, Pottersfield Portfolio, The Gaspereau Review, and Quadrant. His first book of poetry, So Rarely in Our Skins came out in 2002 and was a finalist for both the 6th annual Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and long-listed for the ReLit Award in Poetry. His second book, Museum Absconditum (2006), was also long-listed for the ReLit Award in Poetry.

Pam Calabrese Maclean

Pam Calabrese Maclean lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia where she works in the Library of St. Francis Xavier University. Her poems have appeared in such literary journals as The Antigonish Review, Dandelion, subTerrain, Concrete Wolf, Passager, and The New Writer. She was the recipient of the 2000 and the 2003 Ray Burrell Poetry Award. In 2003 a suite of her poems, On A Chair Outside The Living, was awarded 3rd prize in an international competition from Britain's The New Writer. Her flash fiction has appeared in two US anthologies: Women Behaving Badly, in 2004 and Blink, in 2006. Her first book of poetry, Twenty-four Names for Mother was published in 2006. Her first play, Her Father's Barn, was produced by Festival Antigonish in 2002. Her Father's Barn went on to award-winning performances at The London Fringe Festival and Liverpool International Theatre Festival, before being invited to The Uno Festival in Victoria, BC in 2007. Her latest play, Sunnyside Cafe, recently appeared in The Atlantic Fringe Festival.

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