Chris Benjamin, Freelance Writer

I write fiction, news, features and opinion.

My first novel,  Drive-by Saviours, will be released in Fall 2010 by Roseway Publishing. The judges in the Atlantic Writing Competition called Drive-by Saviours “well written with fully realized characters, an engrossing plot, strong voices and emotional power.”

Here is the trailer for the novel:



I am also a journalist. I write the weekly Sustainable City column for The Coast.  In 2006/2007 I worked as a journalist in Ghana. 

I am currently working on my first book of nonfiction, Green Soul: a tour through the lives of
Atlantic Canada’s sustainable trailblazers, which will be published by Nimbus in Fall 2011. 

I write about the things I value most:

 

Health

Sustainability

Justice 

Culture

I have written fiction and features for The Toronto Star, VoicePrint Canada, This Magazine, Now Magazine, Descant, Third Person Press, Nashwaak Review, Pottersfield Press, Rattling Books, The Society, University of Waterloo Press, Z Magazine, Briarpatch Magazine, The Chronicle Herald, Coastlands, Progress Magazine, and many others.
 

I have lived and worked in Toronto, British Columbia, St. Lucia, Finland, Indonesia, and Ghana. My current home is Halifax, where I live with my wife and son in a house owned by two cats, Bosh and Moon.

Email me for more information, or to join my mailing list. Or follow me at http://twitter.com/benjaminwrites.

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