Wayde Compton

Wayde Compton (left) with Jason de Couto at Scream in High Park, 2008

Wayde Compton (born 1972) is a Canadian writer. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Wayde Compton (right) and Jason de Couto performing turntable poetry at the Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006

Compton has published books of poetry, essays, and fiction, and he edited the first comprehensive anthology of black writing from British Columbia. He co-founded Commodore Books with David Chariandy and Karina Vernon in 2006, the first black-oriented press in Western Canada. He also co-founded the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project in 2002, a grassroots organization that promotes the history of Vancouver's black community. Compton teaches in the faculty of writing at the University of Victoria.

In 1996, he penned the semi-autobiographical poem "Declaration of the Halfrican Nation".

Bibliography

Anthologies

Fiction

Graphic fiction

Non-fiction

Poetry

See also

References

  1. ↑ Clarke, George Elliott (2002). Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. University of Toronto Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-8020-8191-9.
  2. ↑ Compton, Wayde (2004). Performance Bond. Arsenal Pulp Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-55152-164-0.