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Bio: JC Sulzenko Ontario poet JC Sulzenk's narrative, lyrical, found and ekphrastic work, including Bricolage, A Gathering of Centos, a finalist for the national 2022 Fred Kerner Book Award from the Canadian Authors Association, and South Shore Suite... POEMS, appears in anthologies and journals in print and online, either under her name or her pen name, A. Garnett Weiss. Aeolus House published her third collection, Life, after life-from epitaph to epilogue, in November 2024.The Ottawa International Writers Festival, the Canadian Authors Association, County Arts, school boards, municipal libraries, and Alzheimer societies hosted her writing workshops. She has offered mentoring through County Arts and MASC. JC writes poetry on commission and as a fundraiser for charitable causes. JC judged poetry contests for the League of Canadian Poets, the Ottawa Public Library, the Canadian Authors Association, the Ottawa Citizen, and others. She founded and curated "Poetry Quarter" in the Glebe Report (2015-2023.) A full member of the League of Canadian Poets, JC selects for bywords.ca and serves on the Board of the Ontario Poetry Society. |
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Selected Publications for children and families: -Annabella and The TyCoon -Back to Back Stories for Lilli and Zach -Fat poems tall poems long poems small -Annabella and the WereWolves of Whale Cove -Boot Crazy -What my grandma means to say (play and storybook) |
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Selected Anthologies: Time Anthology (Red Penguin Books, 2023); Wild Crone Wisdom: Poetry and Stories (Wild Librarian Press 2023); Tales on the Yellow Brick Road Anthology (YBR Publishing, 2023) I am a human being (Turtle Moons Press, 2022); Framed and Familiar: 101 Portraits (Hidden Books Press, 2022); Pandemic Poems (Public Poetry, 2022) Poetry Leaves Anthology (Michigan, 2020); Nancy Drew Anthology (Silver Birch Press, 2016); Ides, A Collection of Poetry Chapbooks (Silver Birch Press, 2015) |
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Books in Print: -Life, after life-from epitaph to epilogue (A. Garnett Weiss) -Bricolage: A Gathering of Centos (A. Garnett Weiss) -South Shore Suite... POEMS -Breathing Mutable Air (co-authored chapbook with Carol A. Stephen) -Slant of light (co-authored chapbook with Carol A. Stephen) |
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Selected Awards:
-First place, Wind & Water Contests (2019 & 2023) -Finalist, Fred Kerner Book Award (2022) -First place, WrEN New Hampshire (Children's Poetry) (2019) -Poets Pathway Lampman Challenge (2018) -Finalist, Local Gems Chapbook Contest (2017) -Top prizes in The Banister contests (2016, 2013) |
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