Wallace, Bronwen Judith Anne

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- Bronwen Wallace (26 May 1945 – 25 August 1989) was a Canadian poet and short story writer.
- Wallace was born in Kingston, Ontario. She attended Queen’s University, Kingston (B.A. 1967, M.A. 1969). In 1970, she moved to Windsor, Ontario, where she founded a women’s bookstore and became active in working class and women’s activist groups. In 1977, she returned to Kingston, where she worked at a women’s shelter and taught at St. Lawrence College and Queen’s. She wrote a weekly column for the Kingston Whig-Standard. In 1988, she was writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario.
- Her collections testify to her social activism involving women’s rights, civil rights, and social policy. A primary focus of her work was violence against women and children.
- In a series of letters published in 1994 as Two Women Talking: Correspondence 1985-1987, Wallace and poet Erín Moure discuss feminist theory.
- Wallace died of cancer in 1989. Her first and only published collection of short stories, People You’d Trust Your Life To, was published posthumously by McClelland & Stewart in 1990.
- The RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, founded by friends of the poet and the Writers’ Trust of Canada, was originally an annual prize given to a young and promising poet or fiction writer who is under the age of 35 and unpublished in book form. In 2021, in response to feedback from the publishing industry and a drafted open letter by MFA candidate and editor Jade Wallace, the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers opened eligibility to poetry and short-fiction submissions from writers of all ages unpublished in book form.
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