Chris Cannon, a BC-based freelance writer, is the 2011 winner of the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Magazine Award. Chris will received the $2000.00 Award from Shirley Dunn, Award Developer, on Sunday, September 25, 2011 at The Word on the Street Book and Magazine Festival Vancouver. Vancouver magazine (April 2011) published the winning article titled "The Deserter," the story of Rodney Watson who spent a year fighting in Iraq with the US Army. Ordered to return he went AWOL instead, finding sanctuary in a Vancouver church with his new wife and son. Now he’s fighting to stay out of an American prison.
Chris Cannon has a wide array of writing experience, including reporter for Rolling Stone, columnist for the Vancouver Sun, contributing editor to Vancouver magazine and author of four books on music and travel. Over the last four years his work has steadily gravitated toward social and environmental topics, including a four-part series for the Tyee in 2010 on the rediscovery of community ties as a path toward environmental sustainability, for which he received a fellowship from the Tides Foundation. Other work he has written on issues of sustainability, community and the social impact of war has found support with grants and fellowships from the Canadian Arts Council, the British Columbia Arts Council, and the Banff Centre for the Arts.
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