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Jonathan Ball

 

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Full
First name
Jonathan
Last name
Ball
Country
Canada
 

ABOUT

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Biography
Jonathan Ball holds a PhD in English and is the author of numerous books, including Ex Machina (BookThug), a poetry book about how machines have changed what it means to be human, Clockfire (Coach House Books), a collection of 77 plays that would be impossible to produce, The Politics of Knives (Coach House Books), poems about violence, narrative, and spectatorship, and winner of a Manitoba Book Award, The National Gallery (Coach House Books), which was shortlisted for the ReLit Award, and the short story collection The Lightning of Possible Storms, which won a Manitoba Book Award. Jonathan also published John Paizs’s Crime Wave (University of Toronto Press), an academic study of a neglected Canadian cult film classic, which was launched at the Toronto International Film Festival and also won a Manitoba Book Award. In 2014, Jonathan won the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. Visit him online at JonathanBall.com, where he writes about writing the wrong way.
 

PUBLICATIONS AND RECOGNITION

Books and other publications
Ex Machina (Book*hug, 2009)
Clockfire (Coach House Books, 2010)
The Politics of Knives (Coach House Books, 2012)
John Paizs's Crime Wave (University of Toronto Press, 2014)
Why Poetry Sucks: An Anthology of Humorous Experimental Canadian Poetry (Insomniac, 2014)
This eBook is otherwise provided to you as-is (The Martian Press, 2015)
The National Gallery (Coach House Books, 2019)
The Lightning of Possible Storms (Book*hug, 2020)
Awards and other achievements
Awards
2021 Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, Manitoba Book Awards
2020 Finalist, ReLit Award (Poetry)
2017 Recipient, Individual Artists Grant—Writing, Winnipeg Arts Council
2017 Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts—Creative Writing Grant
2015 Winner, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, Manitoba Book Awards
2015 Recipient, Individual Artists Grant—Writing, Winnipeg Arts Council
2014 Winner, John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, Manitoba Book Awards
2013 Winner, Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, Manitoba Book Awards
2012 Recipient, Individual Artists Grant—Writing, Winnipeg Arts Council
2012 Recipient, Writers A Grant, Manitoba Arts Council
2012 Finalist, John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, Manitoba Book Awards
2011 Finalist, Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, Manitoba Book Awards
2009 Finalist, Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Fiction, Alberta Literary Awards
2009 Honourable Mention, Alberta Screenwriters Initiative, Alberta Film Partners
2008 Winner, Pop Montreal and Matrix LitPop Award for Poetry
2008 Finalist, Snare Books Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry
2006 Kathleen and Russell Lane Canadian Writing Scholarship, University of Calgary
2006 Winner, Cubicle Press Chapbook Contest
2006 Honourable Mention, Annual Poetry Contest, Winnipeg Writers' Collective
2004 Winner, Ray Burrell Award for Poetry, Ottawa Valley Writers' Guild
2003 Second Place, Cyberslam Poetry Contest, Contemporary Verse 2
Poetic forms and styles
  • Haiku
  • Long poem
  • Print poetry
  • Prose poetry
Other writing expertise
  • Journalism
  • Literary fiction
  • Screenwriting
Additional writing experience
Comics/Graphic Novels
 

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Contact poet directly
Jonathan Ball
E-mail: jonathan@jonathanball.com
Website: https://www.jonathanball.com
Editorial services
  • Poetry manuscript evaluation
  • Poetry manuscript editing
  • Individual poem editing
  • Fiction editing
  • Non-fiction editing
  • One-on-one mentoring
Editorial services: detail
Various publishing-related and writing-related services