Wayde Compton

Wayde Compton (born 1972) is a Canadian writer. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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• The holloway series in poetry brenda coultas and wayde compton
• Wayde compton the director of the writer s studio on his creative writing process
• References

Compton has published books of poetry, essays, and fiction, and he edited the first comprehensive anthology of black writing from British Columbia. He co-founded Commodore Books with David Chariandy and Karina Vernon in 2006, the first black-oriented press in Western Canada. He also co-founded the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project in 2002, a grassroots organization that promotes the history of Vancouver's black community. Compton is the associate director of Creative Writing at Simon Fraser University's Continuing Studies.

In 1996 he penned the semi-autobiographical poem "Declaration of the Halfrican Nation".