P.W. Bridgman

Poet, Fiction Writer

Vancouver
Canada
CA
Email: 
info@pwbridgman.ca
Website: 
www.pwbridgman.ca
Twitter/X: 
@PWB_writer1

Author's Bio

 

P.W. Bridgman is a twice Pushcart Prize-nominated writer of poetry, short fiction and literary criticism. In 2018 he was one of nine participants in the intensive writing summer school program offered by the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast—an experience that he says was a transformative one in his writing life. 

Bridgman has, in press, a hybrid volume entitled The World You Now Own. It comprises new poems and a novella in verse and will be published in early 2024 by Ekstasis Editions.  His most recent books—a selection of poems entitled Idiolect and a selection of short stories and flash fiction entitled The Four-Faced Liar—were both published by Ekstasis Editions in 2021. Those volumes were preceded by A Lamb (poetry) in 2018, also an Ekstasis publication. Bridgman’s first book—a selection of short fiction entitled Standing at an Angle to My Age—came out in 2013 under the Libros Libertad imprint. 

Bridgman’s poems and stories have appeared (or are forthcoming) in, among other outlets, One Hand Clapping, Wildfire Words, Streetlight Magazine, ZiN Daily, Stanza Canon, Postscript Magazine, The Miramichi Reader, The Moth Magazine, The Glasgow Review of Books, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Litro UK, Litro NY, The Honest Ulsterman, The High Window, The Bangor Literary Journal, The Galway Review, The Maynard, The Canadian Poetry Review, Ars Medica, Poetry Salzburg Review, Grain, The Antigonish Review, Pottersfield Portfolio and other literary periodicals, e-zines and anthologies. His literary criticism has been published in such newspapers and journals as The Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Sun, The Glasgow Review of Books, London Grip, The British Columbia Review and The High Window. 

Bridgman has done many public readings of his creative work at literary venues in his native British Columbia and abroad (including at the United Arts Club in Dublin, the Tchai Ovna Teahouse in Glasgow, the Open Studio in Melbourne, the Accidental Theatre in Belfast and, most recently, the Parkside Lounge in New York).

Learn more about P.W. Bridgman at www.pwbridgman.ca. You can also follow him on Twitter: @PWB_writer1.
 

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Books:
The Four-Faced Liar (Ekstasis Editions, 2021)
,
Standing at an Angle to My Age (Libros Libertad, 2013)

Poetry

Books:
Idiolect (Ekstasis Editions, 2021)
,
A Lamb (Ekstasis Editions, 2018)
Prizes won: 

Flash fiction story, “Little Vova”, placed first in Streetlight Magazine’s Flash Fiction Competition for 2023. The story was also nominated in the USA for a Pushcart Prize in 2023.

“At the Bakery After the Pathology Report Arrives”, selected as one of ten poems to be displayed on buses in British Columbia during 2023/2024 as part of Translink and BC Transit’s Poetry in Transit Program.

“Union Jack” (poem), received the “Commended” designation in the poetry categoy in the Bangor Literary Journal‘s 40-Words Competition for 2022.

The Four-Faced Liar (Ekstasis Editions, 2021) -- finalist for the Miramichi Reader's Very Best Books Award, 2021;

"Poetry Makes Nothing Happen, or So It's Said" (poem) -- second prize, Royal City Literary Arts Society's Write On! Competition, 2021;

"Unilateral Declaration" (flash fiction story) -- one of six finalists in the flash fiction catetory, Bray Literary Festival, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, 2020;

"A Family Gathers" (poem) -- honourable mention, Royal City Literary Arts Society's Write On! Competition, 2019;

“Dream, Interrupted” (poem), longlisted for Fish Publishing’s Fish Poetry Prize in 2018. Fish Publishing administers its poetry competitions from Bantry, Co. Cork.

"All Along the Watchtower" (flash fiction story) -- first prize in the Scottish Book Trust's 50-word Fiction Competition, November 2018;

“We Strive to Dismiss their Prejudices with Humour (A Lamentation in 7/4 Time)”, a poem, shortlisted for the Federation of British Columbia Writers “Word Writes” Poetry Competition in 2018.

“But No, Nothing” (short story first published in the Irish anthology Gem Street 2014), received an Excellence in Contemporary Narrative Award in the Ireland-based Leonard A. Koval International Fiction Competition for 2014.

“Cake, Bang and Elm” (short story first published in the Irish literary anthology Gem Street 2012), placed third in the Ireland-based Leonard A. Koval International Fiction Competition for 2012. The story was also nominated in the USA for a Pushcart Prize in 2012

“This Long Outing”, short story shortlisted in the Glasgow-based Unbound Press Short Story Competition for 2011.

“The Mars Hotel” (flash fiction story first published in the Scottish literary anthology Story.Book in 2011 as a Spilling Ink Review competition-winning story), shortlisted for the Bridport Prize (UK) in the flash fiction category in 2010.

"Ceann Dubh Dilis" (short story) -- first prize in the Pottersfield Portfolio Compact Fiction Awards in 1998;

"Young Love in the Brayburn Road" (short story) -- honourable mention in the Grain Postcard Story Competition, 1996;

"De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum" (short story) - finalist for the Canadian National Magazine Award for Fiction, 1993.

 

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Canadian
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
ON
Canada
Ontario
Raised in: 
BC
Canada
British Columbia
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Last update: Jan 24, 2024