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Kirk Miles
His poems have been produced on CBC’s Alberta Anthology and his poetry and short stories have been published by several journals in western Canada. As a playwright and as a member of One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre’s writing team he has had several plays professionally produced and has earned recognition for his work including a playwriting award from Alberta Culture for co-writing the critically acclaimed Juggler on a Drum. Touchwood Press published a book of poetry entitled The Last Six Minutes of Elvis in 2002. In the fall of 2007 Bravo aired a half hour special on his life as a poet, playwright and clown. In the spring of 2009 he attended the Banff Leighton Artist Colony, where he finished a manuscript entitled of ash of brick of water, which, will be published in the winter of 2010 by Plan-B House publishing. In June of 2009 Kirk Miles won the Alberta Screenwriters Award for a screenplay entitled Shadow Maker.
Awards
Alberta Playwriting Award, Alberta Playwrights Network, 1988
Great Alberta Write off, Alberta Playwrights Network, 1992, 1994
Alberta Screenwriters Award, Writers Guild of Alberta, 2009
