Karin Hedetniemi

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Victoria, BC
Canada
British Columbia CA
Website: 
agoldenhour.com

Author's Bio

I travel, photograph, and write about quiet, soulful things: nature, place, a sense of wonder, loss and living forward, being human.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthology:
Being Home (Madville Publishing, 2021)
Journals:
(mac)ro(mic)
,
433
,
Bacopa Literary Review
,
Capsule Stories
,
Curator Magazine
,
Emerge Literary Journal
,
Grain Magazine
,
Greenprints
,
HerStry
,
Hinterland
,
Hungry Zine
,
Hyacinth Review
,
Island Writer Magazine
,
Literary Namjooning
,
London Reader
,
Lunch Ticket
,
MacGuffin
,
Months To Years
,
MoonPark Review
,
Moria
,
Nurture
,
Past Ten
,
Prairie Fire
,
Reed Magazine
,
Scrawl Place
,
Short Reads
,
Sky Island Journal
,
Stanchion
,
Still Point Arts Quarterly
,
Sylvia Magazine
,
The Cabinet of Heed
,
The Sunlight Press
,
Thin Air Magazine
,
Third Street Review
,
Tiny Molecules
,
Welter

Poetry

Anthologies:
Hauling the Tide (Haiku Society of America, 2024)
,
Fractured by Cattails (Haiku Society of America, 2023)
,
Close Up: Poems on Cancer, Grief, Hope, and Healing (Orchard Lea Books, 2022)
,
Hair Raising (Nine Pens, 2021)
Journals:
Acorn
,
Akitsu Quarterly
,
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal
,
Chrysanthemum
,
Event
,
FERAL: A Journal of Poetry & Art
,
FlashFlood
,
Haiku Canada
,
Haikuniverse
,
Hedgerow: A Journal of Small Poems
,
inScribe
,
Paddler Press
,
Paragraph Planet
,
Poetry Pea
,
Red Alder Review
,
The Listening Eye
,
Unstamatic
,
World Haiku Review
Prizes won: 
  • 2024 Best of British Columbia • Haiku Invitational • Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
  • 2023 Award of Excellence • 12th Setouchi-Matsuyama Photo-Haiku Contest
  • 2023 Short List, Individual Haibun • Touchstone Awards • The Haiku Foundation
  • 2022 3rd Prize • Betty Drevniok Award • Haiku Canada
  • 2022 3rd Prize, Nonfiction • WriteOn! Contest • Royal City Literary Arts Society
  • 2020 1st Prize, Nonfiction • WriteOn! Contest • Royal City Literary Arts Society
  • 2020 2nd Place • Little Iris International Haiku Contest

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Canadian, Scandinavian American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Ann Arbor, MI
Michigan
Raised in: 
Victoria, BC
Canada
British Columbia
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Last update: Feb 16, 2025