Djuna Barnes was an American writer and artist best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.
Radek Bonk is a former Czech professional ice hockey player who most recently played for Oceláři Třinec of the Czech Extraliga.
Charles Frazier is an American novelist. He won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction for Cold Mountain.
Bonk is a video game character from NEC's TurboGrafx-16 console. Known in Japan as "PC-Genjin" and as "BC Kid" in PAL territories, Bonk was a mascot for NEC's console. Three games featured the character appeared on the TurboGrafx-16, as well as two spin-offs featuring Airzonk. The protagonist is a bald caveman named Bonk who attacks using his comically large head. The "PC" part of his Japanese name stands for "Pithecanthropus Computerurus", a fictitious species name for Bonk.
John Stiles was born and raised in the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the author of the poetry collections Scouts are Cancelled and Creamsicle Stick Shivs, as well as the novels The Insolent Boy and Taking the Stairs. Featured on CBC's 'Q', Much Music, and TVO's 'Imprint', John has also written for The Globe and Mail and The Literary Review of Canada. A documentary about John and his poems in Scouts are Cancelled was festival pick in the Hot Docs festival in Toronto 2007 and won best Canadian documentary award in The Atlantic Film Festival in September 2007. John currently lives with his wife in London, England.
Rob Winger is an Ontario-born poet and educator. Winger grew up in Springvale, Ontario and has lived in Toronto, Sackville, New Brunswick, South Korea, Bangkok, Thailand, Guelph, Ontario, and Ottawa, Ontario. Winger now lives with his family in Port Perry, Ontario. He has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Trent University since 2013.
Bonk's Revenge is a 2D platformer set in prehistory, originally for the TurboGrafx 16 console, created in 1991 by the Red Company for Hudson Soft, and licensed by NEC. This is the second title in the Bonk series and it was re-released for the TurboGrafx-16 in 1992 on the Gate of Thunder 4-in-1 game CD-ROM. A completely different game with the same name appeared on the Game Boy, whereas the original version was re-released for Wii Virtual Console and on the Japanese PlayStation Store. It was also released in Japan on Windows Store on December 13, 2013 and on Wii U Virtual Console on March 12, 2014.
Tim Bowling is a Canadian novelist and poet. He spent his youth in Ladner, British Columbia, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He has published four novels. He was a judge for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Bonk's Adventure is a 2D platform video game developed by Red Company and Atlus as the first game in the Bonk series that was released in 1989 in Japan and 1990 in North America for the TurboGrafx-16. In Japan it was released as PC Genjin (PC原人) in 1989, a play on the Japanese name for the system, 'PC Engine'. The game was re-released for the TurboGrafx-16 in the U.S. in 1992 on the Gate of Thunder 4-in-1 game CD-ROM. The game was later ported to the NES, Amiga and arcade systems under different titles. A completely different game with the same name appeared on the Game Boy. It is also available through Nintendo's Virtual Console service, on the PlayStation Store and there is a version for mobile phones in Japan.
Laisha Rosnau is a Canadian novelist and poet.
Madeline Sonik is a Canadian author.
Shane Rhodes is a Canadian poet.
Nightwood is a 1936 novel by Djuna Barnes first published in London by Faber and Faber.
Nightwood Theatre is a Canadian professional women’s theatre company. Based in Toronto, it was founded in 1979 by Cynthia Grant, Kim Renders, Mary Vingoe, and Maureen White, a collective of women in their 20s who set out to develop imagistic theatre practices by drawing on literature, painting, and music. Their first production in 1979, The True Story of Ida Johnson, was adapted from the novel by Sharon Riis, and is described as "an innovative mixed-media performance," as with their 1980 creation, Glazed Tempera, which was inspired by Alex Colville's paintings. The original impetus had little to do with feminism, but that changed once the company began to be defined and critiqued as a group of women theatre practitioners. The company attracted a number of strong writer-performers, such as Beverley Cooper, Ann-Marie MacDonald, and Banuta Rubess. Notable works from this early period in the 1980s include This is For You, Anna, a collective creation exploring themes of justice, power, and violence, based in part on the true story of Marianne Bachmeier; Nancy Drew, The Case of the Missing Mother, by Cooper and MacDonald; and Banuta Rubbess's Pope Joan, about a woman elected as a male pope.
Alex Boyd is a Canadian poet, essayist, editor, and critic.
John Bonk is a former all-star offensive lineman in the Canadian Football League. The four-time All-Star played from 1973 to 1985 for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Bonk won the CFL's Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman Award in 1984. He also won the 60th Grey Cup with Hamilton in 1972 and the 72nd Grey Cup with Winnipeg in 1984.
Gilbert Joseph "Bus" Griffiths was a cartoonist, lumberjack, and fisherman. He was best known for his graphic novel Now You're Logging, published 1978 by Harbour Publishing. Now You're Logging presented, in cartoon form, a complete look at the techniques, tools, and personalities of logging on the West Coast in the 1930s.
Elizabeth Bachinsky is a Canadian poet. She has published four collections since 2005: Curio, Home of Sudden Service, God of Missed Connections, and The Hottest Summer in Recorded History. Her second book, Home of Sudden Service, was nominated for a 2006 Governor General's Award for Poetry. Bachinsky's work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S., France, Ireland, the U.K., China and Lebanon.
John Ferrar Holms (1897–1934) was a British literary critic.
