QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS
ARTS COUNCIL
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RICHARD VAN CAMP
Richard Van Camp is a proud member of the Dogrib (Tlicho) Nation from Fort Smith, NWT, Canada. A graduate of the En'owkin
International School of Writing, the University of Victoria's Creative Writing
BFA Program, and the Master's Degree in Creative Writing at the University of
British Columbia, Richard currently teaches Creative Writing with an Aboriginal
Focus at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC.
He
was recently awarded "Wordcraft Storyteller of
the Year" in 2006-2007 for "the greatest storytelling in Canada and
the US."
Richard's
poems, short stories and novellas have been published in anthologies and
journals since 1992. Three of his short stories from Angel Wing Splash
Pattern, "Mermaids", "Sky Burial" and "The Night
Charles Bukowski Died" have been narrated by
Cree actor Ben Cardinal and broadcast nationally as radio dramas on CBC.
The
QCI Arts Council in collaboration with Literacy Haida
Gwaii, SD50, and the two island band councils hosted
Mr. Van Camp on the islands. He gave
readings in Sandspit
on November 4, Skidegate on November 7, and in Old Masset on November 5.
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