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Wayde Compton has written six books and has edited two literary anthologies. His collection of short stories, The Outer Harbour, won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2015 and he won a National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2011. His work has been a finalist for three other City of Vancouver Book Awards as well as the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Compton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria.

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	So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy by Nalo Hopkinson (Editor), Uppinder Mehan (Editor), Samuel R. Delany (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 828 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration by Wayde Compton (Goodreads Author), April dela Noche Milne (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.72 avg rating — 620 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Outer Harbour 3.86 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	49th Parallel Psalm 4.09 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region 4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Performance Bond 4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them by Wayde Compton (Goodreads Author) (editor), Renee Sarojini Saklikar (Goodreads Author) (editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets by A. Gregory Frankson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Itah Sadu (Contributor), Jamaal Amir Akbari (Contributor) 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics (CLC Kreisel Lecture Series) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Accordéon

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It is an anti-colonial book, but just barely. Forster grasps the injustice. Yet his major concern is whether or not two middle-class people, one a colonizer and one colonized, can be friends. His answer is no, and that is convincing. But is that the ...more
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Wayde Compton liked Pierre-Luc Landry's review of Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics (CLC Kreisel Lecture Series): "Extremely stimulating lecture about race and literature in Canada. Compton opens up necessary conversations with this short read that is nevertheless dense and precise. "
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“Leaving, arriving, returning - those are all just different words for the same thing: starting all over again.”
― Wayde Compton, The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration

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