Cornelia Hoogland is 2023 winner of the Colleen Thibaudeau Outstanding Achievement Award given by the League of Canadian Poets. The award-winning author of eight books is being recognized for her outstanding contribution in the literary community across Canada. Hoogland founded and was the first director of Antler River Poetry in London, Ontario and Poetry Hornby Island on Hornby Island, B.C. where she lives on the traditional territory of the K’ómoks Nation, Gilakas’la/čɛčɛ haθɛč .
Hoogland’s poetry collection, Trailer Park Elegy, (Harbour, 2017), was a finalist for the Raymond Souster award. Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011) was a finalist for the ReLit Award for Poetry. Sea Level was a finalist for the CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize, and Tourists Stroll a Victoria Waterway was a finalist for the 2017 CBC Poetry Awards. Her long poem, “Sea Level,” short-listed for the CBC Nonfiction Awards, was published as a chapbook (Baseline Press, 2012). Cosmic Boling, A Girl Walks into the Woods, a graphic novel with Londoner Diana Tamblyn, and Dressed in Only a Cardigan She Picks up Her Tracks in the Snow (Baseline), are her latest books. Hoogland was the 2019 writer-in-residence for the Al Purdy A-Frame and the Whistler Festival.
Cornelia Hoogland grew up on Canada's west coast, and after many years of living in cities across Canada, has returned home. Gravelly Bay and You Are Home speak to Hoogland’s sense of home––both ocean and woods imagery dominate her books. Her sustained examination of the coastal rain forest in Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011), results in an expanded version of the fairy tale, Red Riding Hood, that includes its habitat and the animals within it. The Grimm tale is also the source of her play, Faim de Loup (Hungry Wolf), shortlisted for production at the Women Playwrights International in Sweden in August 2012, and given a full production (titled RED, by Fountainhead Theatre in London, Ontario, in 2013, John Gerry directing. Crow (Black Moss Press, 2011), celebrates the ‘wolf-bird’ who has accompanied her many homes across the nation, and was on the longlist for the Relit 2011 National Poetry Award. Hoogland directs Poetry* Hornby Island, on the gulf island where she lives with her husband Ted Goodden, a visual artist, and their dog, Drummer. Hornby Island B.C. is the traditional territory of the K’ómoks Nation, Gilakas’la/čɛčɛ haθɛč
Hoogland’s poetry collection, Trailer Park Elegy, (Harbour, 2017), was a finalist for the Raymond Souster award. Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011) was a finalist for the ReLit Award for Poetry. Sea Level was a finalist for the CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize, and Tourists Stroll a Victoria Waterway was a finalist for the 2017 CBC Poetry Awards. Her long poem, “Sea Level,” short-listed for the CBC Nonfiction Awards, was published as a chapbook (Baseline Press, 2012). Cosmic Boling, A Girl Walks into the Woods, a graphic novel with Londoner Diana Tamblyn, and Dressed in Only a Cardigan She Picks up Her Tracks in the Snow (Baseline), are her latest books. Hoogland was the 2019 writer-in-residence for the Al Purdy A-Frame and the Whistler Festival.
Cornelia Hoogland grew up on Canada's west coast, and after many years of living in cities across Canada, has returned home. Gravelly Bay and You Are Home speak to Hoogland’s sense of home––both ocean and woods imagery dominate her books. Her sustained examination of the coastal rain forest in Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011), results in an expanded version of the fairy tale, Red Riding Hood, that includes its habitat and the animals within it. The Grimm tale is also the source of her play, Faim de Loup (Hungry Wolf), shortlisted for production at the Women Playwrights International in Sweden in August 2012, and given a full production (titled RED, by Fountainhead Theatre in London, Ontario, in 2013, John Gerry directing. Crow (Black Moss Press, 2011), celebrates the ‘wolf-bird’ who has accompanied her many homes across the nation, and was on the longlist for the Relit 2011 National Poetry Award. Hoogland directs Poetry* Hornby Island, on the gulf island where she lives with her husband Ted Goodden, a visual artist, and their dog, Drummer. Hornby Island B.C. is the traditional territory of the K’ómoks Nation, Gilakas’la/čɛčɛ haθɛč
Writing Spaces: Cornelia Hoogland
Today in Writing Spaces, we take a peek into the working space of Cornelia Hoogland, author of “River Rhône” in Issue 144 of The New Quarterly! Additional text can be found at The New Quarterly Writing Spaces.
Today in Writing Spaces, we take a peek into the working space of Cornelia Hoogland, author of “River Rhône” in Issue 144 of The New Quarterly! Additional text can be found at The New Quarterly Writing Spaces.
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The Comox Valley is Where I'm From
I am from the Puntledge River. From its current, its fish. Water courses through my valley; water and salmon its bloodstream; shoals and channels that change with a forty-foot tide. I’m from Courtenay, Cumberland; the Comox Glacier, Forbidden Plateau; Goose Spit; Royston; Buckley, Fanny, and Deep Bays; I’m from the islands–Denman and Hornby; from Highways 19 and 19a; the Strait Of Georgia; from Circlet Lake; and in the distance, the Beaufort Range. I’m from the Salish Sea. Continue Reading The Comox Valley is Where I'm From Listen to the Audio Poem |
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