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Creative Achievements Awards and Nominations:Winner Vancouver International Writers Festival Contest Winner Shuswap Writers Festival ContestWinner North Shore Writers Association 2007-2012 Guest Speaker: North Vancouver Arts Council 40th AnniversaryPandora’s Collective Contest 2009, 2008Winner 2005 and 2006 Word on Robson Poetry ContestScholarship Banff Wired Writing Studio (Awarded Canada Council Grant)Finalist Vancouver Poetry Slam Word on the Street; Poet/PerformerBC Festival of the Arts:Chosen as a Poetry Delegate ( Don Mckay – mentor)Chosen as a Poetry Delegate ( Patricia Young – mentor)Professional Writer experience:Contest Judge for North Shore WritersFreelance Arts Reporter: North Shore NewsArts Reporter for Art Avenue: Federation of Canadian Artists: volunteeringReporter/Photographer/ Feature Writer: Sunshine Coast News,Reporter/Photographer/ Feature Writer: The Sechelt Press Facilitator and Co-Author of Moving On – a Second Stage Recovery Group ReportPublished in the following Anthologies (among others): Force Fleld SEVENTY-FIVE contemporary B.C. women poets edited by Susan Musgrave / Mother Tongue PublishingPacific Poetry Project, Ooligan PressAl-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here – Overland BooksThe Alfred Gustav Press, 2008 ( David Zieroth)Sono Nis Press: Breaking the SurfaceNorth Shore Writers Association Millenium Anthology: Shore LinesNorth Shore Writers AnthologyAl-Munatabi street stops here AnthologyWhite Rock Artist and Poet BookCommunity Involvement/Collaborations :Co-ordination of Arts meets Poetry events at the Seymour Art GalleryWriting workshops facilitator: Harmony Arts FestivalMemoir Writing