PORTAL ALUMNI
We Knew Them When…
The following authors have gone on to write books since gracing the pages of Portal and/or graduating with a BA in Creative Writing and Journalism from VIU:
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Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives
(Heritage House, 2022)
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Rhonda Batchelor
Bearings
(Brick Books)
Interpreting Silence
Weather Report
(Beach Holme)
She Loves You
(Dundurn)
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Margo Button
Heron Cliff
(Signature)
Blue Dahlias
(Leaf)
The Elder’s Palace
The Unhinging of Wings
Shadows Fall Behind
(Oolichan)
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Kim Clark
Middle Child of Summer
(Leaf Press)
Attemptations
Sit You Waiting
A One-Handed Novel
(Caitlin Press)
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Ian Gibson
Stuff of Legends
(Ace Books)
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Jolene Heathcote
What’s Between Us Can’t Be Heard
(Ekstasis)
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Devin Krukoff
Hummingbird
(Freehand)
Flyaways
Compensation
(Thistledown)
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Danielle Lagah
Father Tongue
(Oolichan)
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Sina Queyras
My Ariel
MxT
Autobiography of Childhood
Expressway
Lemon Hound
(Coach House)
Unleashed
(Book Thug)
Teethmarks
(Nightwood)
Slip
(ECW)
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Elizabeth Ross
After Birth
Kingdom
(Palimpsest)
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Lori Shwydky
What’s In It for Me?
(Rebel Mountain)
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Shanon Sinn
Haunting of Vancouver Island:
Supernatural Encounters with the Other Side
(TouchWood Editions)
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Kerry Trevelyan Gilbert
Little Red
Tight Wire
(Mother Tongue)
kerplnk
(Kalamalka)
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Paul Tyler
A Short History of Forgetting
(Gaspereau Press)
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Ursula Vaira
And See What Happens: The Journey Poems
(Caitlin Press)
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Troy Wilson
GoldiBooks and the Wee Bear
Little Red Reading Hood and the Misread Wolf
(Running Press Kids)
Dog Ultra Dog!
The Sinking of Captain Otter
Liam Takes a Stand
(Owlkids)
The Duck Says
(North Winds)
Perfect Man
(Orca Books)
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Carol Windley
Midnight Train to Prague
(HarperCollins)
Homeschooling
(Cormorant)
Breathing Under Water
Visible Light
(Oolichan)