Ross published an immensely intriguing article on IPolitics called "Trans Mountain rhetoric has become dumb on all sides."
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Ross Belot, MFA Poetry '17
Ross' Bio: Ross Belot worked for the Canadian oil industry for over 3 decades before before taking early retirement in 2014 and concentrating on his creative endeavours. However he had already been working hard on creative writing prior to that, his poetry collection, Swimming In The Dark, was published by the Canadian Literary Press Black Moss Press in 2008 after being developed within the Banff Centre’s Wired Writing Studio. He has published in journals and anthologies across North America including a poem selected for Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing 2017 from St Marry’s and a Batchelor’s of Chemical Engineering and Management 1981 from McMaster University. While attending the St Mary’s MFA program he was a finalist for the 2016 CBC Poetry Prize. Also while at St Mary’s as a result of attending Brenda Hillman’s eco-poetics course Ross was inspired to query, and was accepted, by the Canadian new media site ipolitics.ca to write opinion pieces on energy and climate change policy. As of February 2018 over forty pieces have been published. In addition to poetry and opinion pieces Ross works in photography and documentary film. His documentary short, Growing Up Grateful, was selected to be screened at the Hamilton Film Festival 2014 and the Toronto Independent Film Festival 2015. His favourite word is virgule. He was an attendee in 2015 at both the Key West Literary Seminar Workshops and the Community of Writers Workshop. Most recently Ross was accepted into the Banff Centre’s five week Writing Studio residency for May 2018. Ross' News: Ross published an immensely intriguing article on IPolitics called "Trans Mountain rhetoric has become dumb on all sides."
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De La Salle Hall: Hagerty LoungeTo Boldly Go: Writing Fiction That Lies Outside of Your Experience by Shanthi Sekaran...
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