James Scoles

Title: Instructor
Building: Ashdown
Email: j.scoles@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

James Scoles holds degrees from Arizona State, North Dakota, and Southern Illinois Universities. He has lived, travelled, and worked in over 90 countries, including Japan for three years. The title poem from his poetry collection—The Trailer (Signature Editions, 2021)—won the CBC Poetry Prize, and his short stories are featured in Coming Attractions 13 (Oberon Press, 2014). His writing has been published in Australia, Canada, Ireland and the USA, and has been nominated for The Journey Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and both the Western and National Magazine Awards. He also helps run a small, 120-year-old family farm where he built a cabin and digs for time to write. Learn more: jamesscoles.ca

Teaching Areas:

Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction, Memoir, Short Fiction, Poetry; Indigenous, Canadian, American & other world literatures, great authors & topics

Courses:

(F) ENGL-1005-002: READING TO WRITE

(F) ENGL-2102-002: INTRO CREATIVE WRITING

(F) ENGL-2603-001: SHORT FICTION 

(W) ENGL-1000-011: ENGLISH 1A

(W) ENGL-1005-770: READING TO WRITE

(W) ENGL-2102-770: INTRO CREATIVE WRITING

(W) ENGL-3113-001: WRITING SHORT FICTION

Publications:

Last Train Home—poetry—Best Canadian Poetry 2024—Biblioasis (Fall, 2023)

Death by Overwork—memoir; 14 pages—Fish Anthology, 2023 (Bantry, Ireland); Memoir Prize Winner; also: Featured Reader at West Cork Literary Festival

Last Train Home—poetry—Grain Magazine, 2022

Flatbeds and Boxcars: Carbondale Illinois & Sing the Leaves from the Trees—poetry—EVENT Magazine, 2022

Small town, big shine—poetry—Illumination: Word Enfleshed: Pembina Valley Arts Council book & art-poetry multimedia exhibition, 2021

The Trailer—poetry; book; 96 pages—Signature Editions, 2021

Indian Ocean Song & Scar Tissue—poetry—CV2, Winter, 2020

She got my heart—poetry—The Malahat Review, Fall, 2019

Coming Attractions 13—short stories (3); book—“An Early Grey Cup,” “El Juego” & “Train Running Through”—three featured short stories; 54 pages—Oberon Press, 2014