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| First Name | Donna |
| Last Name | Allard |
| Member Since | January 22, 2020 |
| State | New Brunswick |
| Country | Canada |
| Company | River Bones Press |
| Branch Affiliation | Member at Large (no branch affiliation) |
| Website | https://riverbonespress.wixsite.com/donnaallardpoet |
| https://www.facebook.com/donnaallard | |
| Goodreads | https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6913793.Donna_Allard |
| Bio | Coastal living along the Northumberland Straight in Atlantic Canada is exactly where Donna wants to be. She resides in a 1909 farmstead... Directorship Donna Allard has been writing for over 40 years. It developed into a vocation while serving as a director/founder for the National Milton Acorn Festival in Charlottetown P.E.I. Donna volunteered as a director on many boards such as AIDS PEI, Alert PEI branch of the National Anti-Poverty Organization, past member of the PEI Writers Guild and past secretary for PEI Songwriters Association. She also attended UPEI to become a Special Olympics Coach. Associations and Translations Today, she’s a professional poet, member of the Writers Federation of NB, and is a past president of the Canadian Poetry Association. On Apr 28, 2014, Donna accepted the position of Honorary member with the CCLA (Canada Cuban Literary Alliance), presented by President Richard Grove. In 2019 Donna became a member of the New Brunswick Independent Authors Association. After thirty years of being published across Canada, as well as a number of other countries around the world, her writing has also been translated into Greek, French, Shetlandic and Bengali. ‘From Shore to Shoormal’, co-authored with Shetland Island poet Natalie Hall (Brokenjaw Press, 2013), her first book by a trade publisher, is written in English, French and the nearly lost Old Scot/Shetland dialect. More about Donna here: https://riverbonespress.wixsite.com/donnaallardpoet/more-about-donna |
| Publications | Anthologies Since 2003, her poems have been in publications/anthologies that include “We Are BEAT Anthology”, 2019, Local Gems Press, National Beat Poetry Foundation Inc. CT USA; “Roll Call; Days Of War Anthology”, 2019, SkyWing Press; “The Dream, The Glory and The Strife Anthology”, 2018, Canada Cuba Literary Alliance Anthology; “Tamarack: Canadian Poetry for the 21st-century”, 2018, Lummox Press; “The Long-Islander”, 2014, founded by Walt Whitman in 1838; “Voices Israel Anthology”, 2007 and 2009; “Left a Place To Stand On: Poems and Essays on Al Purdy”, 2009, and “Expressions; Dr William Henry Drummond Anthology”, Volume Two. Recent Collections Donna is the Canadian Beat Poet Laureate for 2019-20. As a peaceful "purdyesque" writer, her most recent books include “Cold Fire” - currently long-listed for the 2020 Miramichi Reader's ‘The Very Best Book Award’ (2019, SkyWing Press), “Three Times Around the World” (River Bones Press) and “Ghost in the Window” (2019, River Bones Press), and she curates "Canadian Beat Scene". Publishing, Editorship and Adjudication She has been the founding editor of River Bones Press since 2004 and was editor-in-chief for "POEMATA" Canadian Poetry Association's magazine from 2004-2012. More here: https://riverbonespress.wixsite.com/donnaallardpoet/lifelines |
| Other Memberships | 2019- New Brunswick Independent Authors Association 2019- Friends of the Arts: ArtsLinkNB |
| Awards | 2019-2020 International Beat Poet Laureate, Canada 2014- Canada Cuban Literary Alliance: Honorary member of the CCLA by President Richard Grove |
| Available For | Readings |
| Services Offered | Book Reviews |