Websites:
Stories from The Coast
Work from The Statesmen
http://www.chrisbenjaminwriting.com/
Email:
c/o Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia
Chris Benjamin is a freelance writer. He is the Sustainable City Columnist for the weekly newspaper The Coast in Halifax. In 2006/2007 he worked as the Development Correspondent for The Statesman, a daily national newspaper in Ghana.
Chris' first novel, Living in the Dirt (since renamed Drive-by Saviours), won the H.R. Percy Prize for best novel in the Atlantic Writing Competition, and was produced with financial support from the Toronto Arts Council.
Chris has written news stories, features and commentary for The Toronto Star, VoicePrint Canada, Pottersfield Press, Rattling Books, This Magazine, Now Magazine, University of Waterloo Press, Z Magazine, The Chronicle Herald, Progress Magazine, The Nova Scotia Policy Reviews, and many others. In 2006 Chris was recognized with an honourable mention in the Larry Turner Award for creative non-fiction.
