Biography
For the past 30 years while teaching and working with writers through the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, I have supported and encouraged poetry, short fiction and memoir by writers of all ages. I believe in honesty and engagement in writing and in response to writing, and my own poetry reflects my deep interest in revealing untold and difficult stories. I still believe that poetry can do anything. As Anne Carson states in her collection red doc:
"what is the difference between
poetry and prose you know the old analogies prose
is a house poetry a man in flames running
quite fast through it"
Research Interests
- Prose poetry, Narrative Poetry and Confessional Poetry
- Emerging Canadian writing: short fiction and poetry
- Spoken word and Performance Poetry
Selected Publications
- (Brick Books, 2015)
- “Monkey Puzzle Tree” HOOD, ed. Lynn Crosbie, May 2015
- “Pea Soup” HOOD, ed. Lynn Crosbie, May 2015
- “Inside the Telephone Cupboard” Taddle Creek, The Childhood Issue, Winter 2015
- “Why I Love the Car” Arc Poetry Magazine, 2014
- (Brick Books, 2009).
Awards and Recognition
Dora Mavor Moore Award for “Hooked – Seven Poems” (2015)
1st Prize, CBC Literary Contest, Non-Fiction category (1993)
Creative writing description
- Prose poetry, Narrative Poetry and Confessional Poetry,
- Canadian writing: short fiction and poetry,
- Spoken word
- Performance Poetry
Read about Carolyn Smart’s legacy as a Creative Writing professor at Queen’s University.
