Cornelia Hoogland

Cornelia Hoogland is a Canadian poet. She lives on Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada, but also divides her time between London, ON. Alongside her former work as a professor at the University of Western Ontario, Hoogland has performed and worked internationally in the areas of poetry and theatre. She is the founder and the co-artistic director of Poetry London, a literary periodical in London.

Cornelia Hoogland
Bornc. 1952
OccupationPoet
Notable awardsAdjudicators Choice Award

Works

Poetry

Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011) is Hoogland's 6th book of poetry, and is based on the fairy tale, Red Riding Hood.[1] Crow (Black Moss Press), was also released in 2011.[2] Her newest selection, a chapbook titled Gravelly Bay (Alfred Gustav Press, 2012), is set at the ferry terminal on Denman Island.

Theater

Hoogland adapted Woods Wolf Girl for stage as Faim de Loup, which was dramaturged by Gil Garret and Susan Ferley and included in the 2012 PlayWrights Cabaret at the Grand Theatre in London, ON.[3] Faim de Loup was selected for inclusion in the 2012 Women Playwrights International Conference, and performed as Talking in Bed.[4][5]

Hoogland's play, Country of my Skin won the Adjudicators' Choice Award at the London One-Act Festival in 2004, Lesleigh Turner, Director. Janice Johnston directed the same play for In Good Company at the Aeolian Hall in October 2006 and in November 2006 "Country" traveled to Jakarta, Indonesia, to the Women Playwrights International conference. Her published play for children – Salmonberry: A West Coast Fairy Tale (International Plays for Young Audiences, Meriwether, 2000) – was performed at the 1999 International Women Playwrights Conference in Athens.

Bibliography
  • The Wire - Thin Bride - 1990
  • Marrying the Animals - 1995
  • You are Home - 2001
  • Cuba Journal: Language and Writing - 2003
  • Second Marriage. Canadian Poetry Association, 2005 ISBN 1-55253-061-2
  • Woods Wolf Girl - Wolsak and Wynn, 2011
  • Crow - Black Moss Press, 2011

References
  1. "About". CORNELIA HOOGLAND. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  2. "CROW by Cornelia Hoogland". CROW by Cornelia Hoogland. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  3. Chisholm, Kenneth (January 18, 2012). "PlayWrights Cabaret 2012". Theater in London. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
  4. "Faim De Loup (Hungry Wolf) selected for Women Playwrights International". Cornelia Hoogland - Canadian Writer & Poet. 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  5. "International Centre for Women Playwrights - 13 Plays Selected for 9th WPI Conference". www.womenplaywrights.org. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
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