 M. Jennie Frost
10754 – 85 Avenue
Edmonton
, Alberta T6E 2K8
Phone: 780-433-2932
Email: M. Jennie Frost
Since 1996, I have told stories in festivals, concerts, conferences, libraries, and schools in seven provinces. I tell folktales from many countries, literary stories and narrative poems, Halloween and horror stories, and my own stories and poems. As I studied Classics at university and used to teach Latin in school, university, and adult extension classes, I often tell Greek and Roman myths and legends. I love sharing long stories—drawing listeners into places outside our present world where we can spend some time together involved in the people and events of the tale. I enjoy working in schools and feel strongly that students at all levels need to be made aware of the world’s heritage of story. Besides story performances for audiences of any age, I offer workshops in storytelling and writing for children (gr.4 and up) and adults.
Career Highlights:
• participation in seven Young Alberta Book Society Festivals, touring to 35 schools and libraries in 27 communities
• TALES festivals and concerts in Edmonton, Calgary, and Lethbridge
• telling at Taylor Lake, Ontario and Vancouver with other storytellers from across Canada to present epic: Homer’s Iliad, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the Indian Mahabharata, and the Tibetan Gesar of Ling
• telling horror stories for the Fort Edmonton Halloween Spooktacular, 1996 – 2008
• the Edmonton Book Fair
• the Edmonton Children’s Fringe Festival
• telling on the steps of the Alberta Legislature to several thousand people gathered at a candlelight vigil in support of the Alberta teachers’ right to strike
• President of SC-CC for 2 years, on the Board for 6 years
• President or Treasurer of the Edmonton chapter of TALES (The Alberta League Encouraging Storytelling) 1997 – 2008, helped produce many concerts for them.
Select Publications*:
• The Courtship of Hippodameia, Honorable Mention, 2002 Mellen Press Long Poem Contest, Mellen, Lewiston, New York, 2005.
• Pygmalion and Other Greek Myths, 2-CD set funded by Canada Council, 2005.
• The Tiger and the Frog, TALES On the Wind, 2-CD set, M. Hays, Ed., upcoming.
• Power, Prizewinner, 2008 Short Grain Contest. Grain Magazine, Winter 2008.
• Near Breaking, Honourable Mention, Towards the Light 2008 Poetry Contest. Towards the Light Journal of Reflective Word & Image, Summer 2008.
• Writing, First Prize, Alberta Innovation Marketplace Poetry Contest, 2006.
• The Bear, Under the Wide Blue Sky: Alberta Stories to Read and Tell, Red Deer Press, 2005.
• The Swords, Iron Will, In the Ditch, Writers Undercover: Tenth Anniversary Issue, Cambridge Writers Collective, 2004.
• Ariadne at Dusk, The Classical Outlook, Vol. 81 #1, Fall 2003.
• Soup Cup, First Prize, 2002 Amethyst Review Poetry Contest. Published with “Letters of Sympathy”, Amethyst Review, Summer 2002.
*Hippodameia, Pygmalion, TALES On the Wind, and Under the Wide Blue Sky available directly from Jennie.
Young Alberta Book Society www.yabs.ab.ca/artistinfo.asp?ID=69
Nov 2008
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