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Roger Moore (BA [Bristol], MA, PhD [Toronto], 3M National Teaching Fellow) is an award-winning teacher, researcher, poet and short-story writer. Born in Swansea, the same town as Dylan Thomas, he emigrated from Wales to Canada in 1966. He has lived in Fredericton, New Brunswick, since 1971, and in Island View (Valley View Estates on the outskirts of Fredericton) since 1989. His writing awards include CBC short story finalist (1987 and 2010), WFNB Bailey award (poetry, 1989 & 1993), WFNB Richards award (prose, 2020). He has published 10 books of prose and 35 books and chapbooks of poetry. Over 150 of his poems and short stories have appeared in 30 Canadian magazines and literary reviews. Roger is a Professor Emeritus (STU), a member of the consejo honorífico of La Perinola (Unversidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain) and a corresponding member of IGDA (Institución Gran Duque de Alba, Ávila, Spain). He is also a member of TWUC and was the first writer in residence at Kingsbrae International Residencies for Artists in June, 2017 and the first returning KIRA Alumnus (May-June, 2021).

Creative Writing Awards
2021 WFNB Creative Non-Fiction Award First Place: Two Dead Poets
2020 WFNB David Adams Richards Award First Place: On Being Welsh in a Land ruled by the English
WFNB Alfred G. Bailey Award Second Place Second Place: The Nature of Art and the Art of Nature
WFNB Creative Non-Fiction Prize Third Place: An Exercise in Writing
2019 Fredericton Word-Feast Post Card Story Finalist: Auntie Gladys
2018 WFNB DA Richards Award Third Place: Devil’s Kitchen
WFNB Dawn Watson Memorial Award Honorable Mention: Angel
2016 WFNB D. A. Richards Award Honorable Mention: Nobody’s Child
NB Literary Awards Finalist Prose Fiction: Bistro
2015 WFNB Douglas Kyle Memorial Award Short Fiction First Place, Letting Go
2014 WFNB Creative Non-Fiction Award Honorable Mention: Message in a Bottle
2012 WFNS Atlantic Short Fiction Award Honorable Mention Butterflies
2011 WFNB DA Richards Award Honorable Mention: People of the Mist
2010 CBC Short Fiction Award Finalist: The Key
WFNB Short Fiction Award First Place: The Weaver
2004 NB Film Co-op Silver Wave Film Festival 2nd place, Rogers Viewers’ Award, Birthday Suit
1995 WFNB Alfred G. Bailey Prize First Place: Alban Angels
WFNB DA Richards Award Honorable Mention: Decent People
1989 WFNB Alfred G. Bailey Prize First Place: Still Lives
1987 CBC Short Fiction Award Finalist: Father
1962 Stroud International Festival of the Arts, First Prize, Poetry
Publications
Bibliography of Creative Works
(*** Available on Amazon.com ^^^ Available at Cyberwit.com)

Moore, Roger. A Cancer Chronicle. Create Space: Roger Moore, 2017. ***
---. All About Angels. 2009. New edition, enlarged and revised. Create Space: Roger Moore, 2016. ***
---. At the Edge of Obsidian: A Book of Hours, Oaxaca, Mexico. Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent UP, 2005.
---. Ávila. Cantos y santos y ciudad de la santa. Create Space: Roger Moore, 2016. ***
---. Birthday Suit: The Making of the Movie. Fredericton: U of New Brunswick Libraries, 2007.
---. Bistro. Create Space: Roger Moore, 2016. Finalist, NB Book Awards, 2017 ***
---. Bistro Two. Moore Short Fiction. Create Space, 2017. ***
---. Broken Ghosts. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 1986.
---. Daffodils. Fredericton: Roger Moore, 1992.
---. Dewi Sant. Fredericton: Roger Moore, 2010.
---. Empress of Ireland. Create Space: Roger Moore, 2016. ***
---. Fundy Lines. Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent UP, 2002.
---. Granite Ship: Lines from Ávila, July-August 2005. Fredericton: Roger Moore, 2006.
---. Iberian Interludes. Create Space: Roger Moore, 2016. ***
---. Idlewood. Fredericton: Roger Moore, 1990.
---. In the Art Gallery. Fredericton: Roger Moore, 1991.
---. Lamentations for Holy Week. Fredericton: Roger Moore, 2020.
---. Land of Rocks and Saints: Poems from Ávila. Fredericton: Nashwaak Editions, 2008.
---. Last Year in Paradise. Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1978.
---. M Press of Ire: Poems from Ste. Luce-sur-mer Quebec. Fredericton: Roger Moore, 2008.
---. McAdam Railway Station. Fredericton: Roger Moore, 2019.
---. Monkey Temple. 2012. Create Space: Roger Moore, 2016. ***
---. Nobody’s Child. Create Space: Roger Moore, 2017. ***
---. Obsidian 22. The Oaxaca Trilogy 3. Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent UP, 2007.
---. Obsidian’s Edge. Create Space: Roger Moore, 2016. ***
---. On Being Welsh in a land ruled by the English. Allahabad: Cyberwit.net, 2021. *** / ^^^
---. One Small Corner. Create Space: Roger Moore, 2017. ***
---. Scarecrow. Fredericton: Roger Moore, 2019.
---. Secret Gardens. Fredericton: Roger Moore, 1991.
---. Stars at Elbow and Foot. Selected Poems. Allahabad: Cyberwit.net, 2021. *** / ^^^
---. Stepping Stones. Fredericton: Rabbittown Press, 2015.
---. Sun and Moon: Poems from Oaxaca, Mexico. Create Space: Roger Moore, 2016. ***
---. Systematic Deception. Ottawa: BowlOver Design & Publishing, 2014.
---. Tales from Tara. Fredericton: Roger Moore, 2019.
---. Time-Spirits. Fredericton: Roger Moore, 2019.
---. Though Lovers Be Lost. Create Space: Roger Moore, 2016. ***
---. Triage. Fredericton: Roger Moore, 2015.
---. Twelve Days of Cat. Fredericton: Roger Moore, 2020.
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