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Lorne Daniel has been a recipient of grants from the Canada Council and Alberta Culture, and a residency at Banff Centre Leighton Artists’ Colony. He also served as a Writer in Residence at the University of Lethbridge.
Books
title t.b.a., (forthcoming September 2025), University of Calgary Press ‘Brave & Brilliant’ Series
Drawing Back to Take a Running Jump, Weedmark Publishing
Falling Together, Thistledown Press
In the Flesh (chapbook), Sidereal Press
Towards a New Compass, Thistledown Press
The Hunting Hand, Red Deer College Press
Recognition
‘Sitting with the Breath’ shortlisted for the Leslie Strutt Poetry Prize (League of Canadian Poets), fall 2024.
‘Crushed,’ a Poem-in-Your-Pocket for poetry month, co-sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets and the Poetry Foundation (U.S.), April 2019
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize for ‘Today is the Frontier’ (Writers Guild of Alberta / Edmonton Journal / Calgary Herald), 1995
Literary Journals
Cirque (US)
Soundings (US)
Canadian Forum
Bricklayer
Salt
CVII
Poems ‘n’ Things
Blue Buffalo
Prime Cuts
Prairie Fire
Poetic License
Repository
Nebula
Whetstone
Terrain [US)
Waves
Empty Mirror (US)
many others
Broadcast
CBC Radio – Alberta
CKUA Radio – Alberta
CBC Radio – Canada (national)
Co-Editor
Ride Off Any Horizon I & II, NeWest Press (anthologies of prairie poetry)
Anthologies
Work included in the following:
The Senior Class: 100 poets on aging, (2024), ed. Laurence Musgrove, Lamar University Literary Press, TX
You Are a Flower Growing Off the Side of a Cliff, (2021), League of Canadian Poets
emerge: the Writers Studio Anthology, (2018), Simon Fraser University
Red Wheelbarrow 2017: first annual poetry prize edition (long-listed for award)
Writing the Terrain: traveling across Alberta with the poets, University of Calgary Press (2005), edited by Robert Stamp
In the Clear (1998), Thistledown Press
Here is a Poem: an anthology of Canadian poetry, The League of Canadian Poets
The Alberta Diamond Jubilee Anthology (1978), Hurtig Publishers
Storm Warning II: the new Canadian poets (1976), ed. Al Purdy, McClelland & Stewart
Newspapers
Red Deer Advocate
Banff Crag & Canyon
Edmonton Journal
Lethbridge Herald
Calgary Herald
Ottawa Citizen
Magazines and Journals
Published in over 25 periodicals (print & online), including:
Terrain (US)
Dogs in Canada
Canadian Literature
Canadian Running
Treehouse Family
Alberta Motorist
NeWest Review
EarthLines (UK)
Life As a Human
Canadian Ethnic Studies
Quill & Quire
Ex-Puritan
Alberta Venture
Western Parent
The Fiddlehead
Books in Canada
Education
M.C.S. (Master of Communication Studies), University of Calgary
B.A. (independent studies in creative writing), University of Lethbridge
Graduate poetry workshops / programs at University of New Orleans, Pacific University (Oregon), and Simon Fraser University
Literary Memberships
Lorne has served on the executive of the Writers Guild of Alberta and as Alberta representative for the League of Canadian Poets. He is currently a member of the Federation of BC Writers, the League of Canadian Poets, and The Writers Union of Canada.