Featured writer Sterling Haynes
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Dedicated in loving memory to First Nations World Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Vera Manuel.
“Wake Up Call: tales from a frontier doctor” published by Caitlin Press in 2010, 160 pages and 35 stories. In Wake Up Call, Dr. Sterling Haynes share the humorous and sometimes tragic tales of his life as a frontier doctor: a man shoots off his big toe in a drunken binge then begs the doc to get him to Sunday mass on time, an inmate swallows a spoon handle to avoid solitary confinement, an accident with a Murphy bed leaves a man hanging for more the 10 hours, an encounter with a tick has devastating consequences. In his second collection of short stories, Sterling shares honest and raw insight into doctoring in small town North America.
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Based on a recent description on Forever Young, I realized he may be a neighbour in my town!! How cool. Wish I knew him in person. Would or could be a delightful conversationalist!
Our kids grew up eating meat only from the wild – and so I’m confident that story swapping could be an interesting pastime to share with him.
May long life and poetic/prose continue to flow from his recollections and pens. Ahem, ok, maybe computers.
Hi,
Thanks for your comments. Jessie and I live in Westbank, BC and I write stories and zany poetry most days. I also read a lot and love my flower garden and my Cairn terrier, Willie. My poem “Momma Does Milk” was published by Red Claw Press [Toronto] yesterday in their anthology “Crave It”
Dear Sterling:
I recently won the Brainstorm Poetry Contest and am wondering if you are the poet who won first prize. If so, I’d very much like to see more of your work; I read “Momma Does Milk” and liked it very much.
Best,
Kristin Roedell