Bernice Lever gets high on words. A poet with 8 poetry books, including, Never A Straight Line, 2007, she has also written a college textbook and other non-fiction works. Living on Bowen and retired from college English teaching, she gives editing and marketing advice, and writing workshops. She enjoys performing her poems and prose pieces as she has read on 5 continents. Best known as editor of WAVES, a literary magazine from 1972-1987, Bernice has won awards for her poems, such as the Wm. Henry Drummond poetry prize, 2008. She continues to write on this peaceful island.
In 2004, she received CAA’s Allan Sangster Award for service to other writers; in 2007, the Special Achievement Award at the Surrey International Writers Conference from the Surrey Board of Trade, and in 2008, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Vancouver Public Library and World Poetry Reading Series. Bernice is a Life member of the Canadian Authors Association and Canadian Poetry Association as well as a member of the BC Federation of Writers and North Shore Writers. She now has provincial and national executive positions with the CAA, just as she did with the League of Canadian Poets in Toronto in 1990’s. Currently, she is E-Writer-in-Residence for both CAA branches of Vancouver and Ottawa. For more details: www.colourofwords.com
Bernice is also an organizer of "Write On Bowen, A Festival of Readers and Writers", July 11-13, 2008, and she is giving a reading, Blue Pencil sessions and Poetry Panel advice.
