Williams, Duane
Biography
Duane Williams left medical school and is currently working for the Hamilton AIDS Network providing health promotion and support for people suffering from the disease. He has received many awards for short stories and poetry and has co-authored with local writer Linda Frank a chapbook of poetry, Taste the Silence, which sold out at a reading at the Idle Cafe in Toronto. It has been reprinted and can be obtained at: Flying Turtle Press, 77 Hunter Street East, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 1M4.
Awards/Recognitions
Hamilton and Region Arts Council Award, Single Poem Category, 1997 for "Fine Zebra Balance" (in People's Poetry Letter V3 n4 Fall/Winter '97)
Hamilton and Region Arts Council Award, Short Story Category, 1993 for "Behind Glass" (in Queeries: an Anthology of Gay Male Prose, Arsenal Pulp Press, 1993)
Hamilton and Region Arts Council Award, Poem Category, 1995 for "Why My Father Planted Tulips" (in Kairos 7, 1995/96 ed by R. W. Megens and Royston Tester, Kairos Inc., Dundurn P.O. Box 33553, Hamilton, Ontario, L8P 4X4)
Hamilton and Region Arts Council Award Short Story Category, 1996 for "Apricot Jam" (in Kairos 8, 1996/97, ed. by R. W. Megens, Kairos Inc., Dundurn P. O. Box 33553, Hamilton, Ontario, L8P 4X4)
Hamilton and Region Arts Council Award, Poem Category, 1996 for "Moses" (in Taste The Silence)
Other Information
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Published Work
2002. Hepatitis C (HCV) Network Needs Assessment. Hamilton: Social Planning & Research Council. (Nonfiction)
1998. Soul is Only a Word. Hamilton: Solitary Bird Press. (Poetry)
1996. [with Linda Frank] Taste the Silence. Hamilton: Flying Turtle Press. (Poetry)
