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DEB LOUGHEAD
Deb Loughead, a Toronto author, poet and workshop leader, has been writing since she learned how to read. She completed her B.A. in English at the University of Toronto in 1977, then worked as a copy editor until she decided to stay home to raise her three sons and squeeze in some creative writing on the side. From 1980 - 1995 she was an associate editor for Etobicoke's Spires magazine, writing short stories, poetry and articles for the children's pages. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in a variety of Canadian publications. She has also written and directed children’s plays which were produced by the drama club at an Etobicoke elementary school.
In 2000 Deb won the John Spencer Hill Award for Fiction for her short story entitled Like Smoke; it was republished in the Winter 2004 issue of Storyteller magazine. In addition to Island Bound, Deb has produced five children's novels, Time and Again, The Twisting Road Tea Room, Pet Fair, A Pocketful of Rocks, (Hodgepog Books, 2001) and A Pocketful of Fur, (Hodgepog Books, 2003), as well as a book of children's poems, All I Need and other poems for kids, (Moonstruck Press, 1998).
Deb is a past president of CANSCAIP, The Canadian Society for Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers, and a member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers’ Union.
More information can be found about Deb Loughead
on her web site: www.debloughead.ca
Publications:
Island Bound
Stabenfeldt, Norway, Sweden 2007; Reed Publishing, New Zealand, 2008A Pocketful of Fur
Vancouver: Hodgepog Books 2003, Scholastic Education, 2008A Pocketful of Rocks
Vancouver: Hodgepog Books, 2001, Scholastic Education, 2008The Pigz Project
Stabenfeldt, Norway, Sweden 2008Time and Again
Sumach Press, Canada, 2004, Stabenfeldt, Norway, SwedenSwimming Lessons
Scholastic Education, 2006The Twisting Road Tea Room
Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Ragweed Press, 2000, Stabenfeldt, Germany 2005Pet Fair
Vancouver: Hodgepog Books, 2000All I Need and other poems for kids
Toronto: Moonstruck Press, 1998Awards:
- Writing for Children Competition 2004, Second Prize,
for children’s narrative poem It Happened- John Spencer Hill Award, 2000,
for short story Like Smoke- Sean Ryan Children's Fund poetry competition, 1999, Special Prize,
Childhood Category for The Evidence of Your Childhood- Canadian Children's Book Centre Choice for
All I Need and other poems for kids- Canadian Children's Book Centre Choice for
A Pocketful of Rocks
