Wayde Compton (born 1972) is a Canadian writer. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Compton has published books of poetry, essays, and fiction, and he edited the first comprehensive anthology of black writing from British Columbia. He co-founded Commodore Books with David Chariandy and Karina Vernon in 2006, the first black-oriented press in Western Canada. He also co-founded the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project in 2002, a grassroots organization that promotes the history of Vancouver's black community. Compton teaches in the faculty of Creative Writing at Douglas College.
In 1996 he penned the semi-autobiographical poem "Declaration of the Halfrican Nation".[1][2]
Bibliography
editAnthologies
edit- Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature (2001)
- The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them (with Renee Sarojini Saklikar) (2015)
Fiction
edit- The Outer Harbour: Stories (2014)
Graphic fiction
edit- The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration (illustrated by April dela Noche Milne) (2019)
Non-fiction
edit- After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region (2010)
- Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics (2024)
Poetry
edit- 49th Parallel Psalm (1999)
- Performance Bond (2004)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Clarke, George Elliott, Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature, University of Toronto Press, 2002, p. 229.
- ^ Compton, Wayde, Performance Bond, Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004, p. 15.