2007 Award Winner

Winner of the 2007 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award Receives Prize at The Word on the Street Book and Magazine Fair

John Vigna, a Vancouver freelance writer is the 2007 winner of the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award. Mr. Vigna’s successful submission, The Ballad of Big and Small, is a magazine article to be published in the fall of 2007 by Grain Magazine. Shirley Dunn, founder and fund developer for the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award, presented the award and the $2000.00 prize to Mr. Vigna on September 30, 2007 at The Word on The Street, Book and Magazine Fair in Calgary.

John Vigna has been a self-employed writer since 1989 and has devoted himself full time as a freelance professional writer since 1999. His writing has been featured in many magazines and newspapers, including The Georgia Strait, The Vancouver Sun, The Vancouver Province, Banff Crag & Canyon and The Canmore Leader. He has won a number of Professional Awards including scholarships from the BC Arts Council, Banff Cultural Journalism and Creative Non-Fiction Scholarship, Canada Council as well as the First Prize for Creative Non-Fiction Awarded by the Kootenay Writer’s Guild. He was chosen as 2002 Vancouver Entrepreneur of the Year (Service Business-to-Business). John has recently completed his Master of Fine Arts at UBC in the Creative Writing Program.

John Vigna, is also is a fiction writer. His fiction has been featured in several literary anthologies along with his poetry. John has won several awards for his fiction including the 2007 First Prize for the Sub Terrain Lush Triumphant Fiction Contest, and a first prize from the Kootenay Writers Guild for his poetry.