Barry Dempster
	Publishing Panel
	Reader

Barry Dempster is the author of fourteen books, including a novel, a children’s book, two volumes of short stories and ten collections of poetry. He has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award twice and has won a Petra Kenney Award, a Confederation Poets’ Prize, a Prairie Fire Poetry Contest and the Canadian Authors’ Association Chalmers Award for Poetry for his 2005 collection, The Burning Alphabet. In 2009, he published two new books of poetry: Love Outlandish, published by Brick Books in April, and Ivan’s Birches, with Pedlar Press, in September. Barry is senior editor at Brick Books. Also over this past year, he was a Wired Writing mentor at the Banff Centre as well as facilitator of a two-week poetry workshop in
Santiago, Chile.

Barry Dempster spoke at the Ontario Writers' Conference 2010.