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Amanda Merritt

I  am grateful to live and work on the unceded Coast Salish Territory of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ nations, and to share in this land's cultural and geographic diversity.  While poetry and community organising are my passions, the natural world is my creed.


The Divining Pool, my debut poetry collection, was nominated for the 2018 Gerald Lampert Memorial award. More recently I was selected for the 2020 CBC and Pacific Spirit Poetry Prizes. I was honoured to be among Aesthetica’s 2021 and 2017 annual creative writing finalists, and to have won the 2015 Anstruther Poetry Award. In 2014 I was also short-listed for the Malahat Review’s Open Season award. My poetry has been published in American, UK, and Canadian journals such as Grain, Prairie Fire, Hart House Review, and Strand. In another life I was the founding editor of The Scores.


I would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts in the development of my second poetry collection.

Publications

poetry book

Purchase

2023 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award

'Ode to Whiskey'


2023 Dalhousie Review

'Waiting Room'


2023 Fiddlehead

'Drive'


2022 CV2

'The Incompleteness Theorem'


2022 FreeFall Magazine

'The Measure'


2022 Anti-Languorous Project

'Farmer's Almanac'

'Nephology'


2022 The Literary Review of Canada

'Elegy'


2022 The Threepenny Review

'Medusa'


2022 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award

'A Cure for Anxiety'


2019 Borders in Globalisation Vol 1 No 1:

'Borderlander'


2018 Island Writer 17th Annual Victoria Writers Society Poetry Award: 

‘Dzunukwa’


2017 Wundor Editions: The Diving Pool, debut poetry collection

Review: Wedgie Magazine by Tom Gould

Review: LA Review of Books by Rowland Bagnall


2017 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award: 

‘Mirror/Mirror’ Issu pg 45


2016 The Narrator: 

‘After the Death of Your Husband’


2016 Grain Vol 43 No 4:

‘Milk River, AB’ 

‘Missing Persons’

‘Oh Alice’

‘Portrait of Persephone as a Girl’

‘The Love Myth’


2016 Stand Magazine Vol 14, No 2: 

‘Eden’

‘A Cure for Anxiety’


2016 Wedgie Magazine: 

‘The Watcher’

'The Waterfall Effect’


2014 Prairie Fire Vol 36 No 3:

 ‘The Keep’


2014 Hart House Review Online:

 ‘The Modern Prometheus’

‘Thoramby Island’


2014 Untethered Vol 1 No 1:

‘Blood in the Garden’

‘Departure’‘

'After the Death of Your Husband’

‘Inedible Fruit’


2014 Prairie Fire Vol 35 No 2:

‘Preparing for Badrak’

‘A Refrain for Drowning’


2013 Descant Vol 44 No 4: 

‘Brother’


2013 Qwerty: No 30:

'Asamando’ 

Reviews

Reviews

Reviews

'Ghost Geographies' by Tamas Dobozy and 'The Running Trees' by Amber McMillan. Event Magazine. September 2022.


‘Undoing Hours’ by Selina Boan. The Malahat Review. January 2022.


'Chan’ by Hannah Lowe. The London Magazine. 8 Dec 2016. 


‘Measures of Expatriation’ by Vahini Capildeo. The London Magazine. 11 May 2016.


“Brave and Honest: Alumna Fiona Benson’s ‘Bright Travellers’ Reviewed.” The Saint. 19 Feb 2015.   

Reviews

Reviews

creative writing

Awards & Scholarships

Poetry Awards

Poetry Awards

Poetry Awards

2022 Longlist for PRISM's Grouse Grind Lit Prize

2022 Shortlist for FreeFall Poetry Contest

2022 Longlist for Room's Fiction Contest

2022 Finalist in poetry for the Disquiet Prize

2021 Longlist for Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets
2021 Shortlist for Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 

2020 Longlist for the CBC Poetry Prize

2020 Longlist for PRISM’s Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize

2018 Longlist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award

2018 Second place for Victoria Writer’s Society Poetry Award

2016 Shortlist for Aesthetica Creative Writing Award

2015 First place for Anstruther Association Poetry Award 

2014 Longlist for the Malahat Review Open Season Award

Scholarships

Poetry Awards

Poetry Awards

Banff Centre: Adele Wisemen Endowment (2021)

Norton Island Residency Fellowship (2018)

UVic: F. E. Chapman Achievement Award (2012)

UVic: Philip Pickering Award in Poetry (2011)

UVic: G.&l.Few Achievement Award (2011)

UVic: Pat Bevan Scholarship in Writing (2011)

UVic: Tom Perry Award for Social Responsibility (2011)

UVic: Excellence Renewable Entrance Scholarship (09-13) 

Artist Statement

creative writing

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