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Grant Savage
Conyer Clayton
BIO
Biography

Conyer Clayton is an award-winning writer, editor, musician, and arts educator living on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe land. Her multi-genre work often explores grief, disability, the climate crisis, and gendered violence through a surrealist and eco-poetic lens. She is the author of But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. (A Feed Dog Book by Anvil Press, 2022), We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite (Guernica Editions, 2020, Winner of the Ottawa Book Award), and many chapbooks. Her collaborative chapbook with Manahil Bandukwala was shortlisted for the 2021 bpNichol Chapbook Award, and she is the winner of the 2019 Robin Blaser Poetry Prize and the 2017 Diana Brebner Prize. She is the social media coordinator for Canthius, an editorial member of Augur, and a member of VII; an Ottawa-based poetry collective.

ADDRESS
City: Ottawa, Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
GENRE
Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short Story, CNF
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
But the sun
Title
and the ships
Title
and the fish
Title
and the waves
Publisher
A Feed Dog Book by Anvil Press
Year
2022
Title
Towers
Publisher
Collusion Books
Year
2021
Title
Sprawl | the time it took us to forget
Publisher
2020
Year
Collusion Books
Title
We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite
Publisher
2020
Year
Guernica Editions
Title
Trust Only the Beasts in the Water
Publisher
above/ground press
Year
2019
Title
Mitosis
Publisher
In/Words Magazine and Press
Year
2018
Title
Undergrowth
Publisher
bird
Title
buried press
Publisher
2018
Title
For the Birds. For the Humans.
Publisher
battleaxe press
Year
2018
Title
holy disorder of being by VII
Publisher
Gap Riot Press
Year
2022
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Conyer Clayton
Publication
We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite
Year
2021
Name
Finalist for 2021 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry
Publication
We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite
Year
2021
Name
Finalist for ReLit Award for Poetry
Publication
We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite
Year
2021
Name
Finalist for 2021 bpNichol Chapbook Award
Publication
Sprawl | the time it took us to forget
Year
2021
Name
Finalist for Alberta National Magazine Award for Essay Writing
Publication
I cannot write this softly
Year
2020
Name
Co-Winner - The Capilano Review's Robin Blatchford Poetry Prize
Publication
3 poems in The Capilano Review
Year
2019
Name
Honourable mention in The Fiddlehead's Annual Poetry Contest
Publication
Recurrent
Year
2018
Name
in The Fiddlehead
Name
3rd place in Prairie Fire Poetry Contest
Publication
What you actually lost in Prairie Fire
Year
2017
Name
Winner of Arc Poetry Magazine's Diana Brebner Prize
Publication
Seeds in Arc Poetry Magazine
Year
2017
LINKS
Links
My website
My bandcamp
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
EQUITY INITIATIVE
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