CV

January – May 2020

Mentor, Writers’ Guild of Alberta

  • Five-month intensive mentoring program that resulted in the developmental edit of a poetry manuscript.
Fall Semester 2019

Guest Instructor/Mentor, Wordfest – the Class, Mount Royal University

  • Presented an overview of how to interview writers with the purpose of producing a radio show, and continued to mentor students who became co-hosts on CJSW Writers Block.
May 2018 – Present

Instructor, Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society

  • Workshops including Travel Writing, Poetry, Form Poetry, Creative Nonfiction
May 2011 – Present

Engagement Expert, Qualified Mediator, Editor, and Story Doula, House of Blues Skies Consulting Inc.

  • President of a boutique communications and engagement firm, concentrating on arts, municipal, and innovation sector clients.
  • Editor (developmental, copy, and line editing) for various award-winning literary clients.
  • Translator (Dutch to English)
May 2016 – May 2017

Community Engagement Coordinator, Faculty of Arts & Calgary Distinguished Writers Program, University of Calgary

  • Developed and delivered community engagement, event planning, and project management support services for major initiatives for the Faculty of Arts and the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program;
  • Facilitated festivals and major annual events for the Faculty of Arts and the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program;
  • Created and/or edited the production of event communications tools including stakeholder mailings, open house display banners, brochures, website content, key messages, advertisements, PowerPoint presentations, speeches, handouts, social media, and event posters;
  • Maintained the stakeholder database for the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program
2007 – present

Founder/Publisher/Editor, House of Blue Skies Publishing

  • With Edmonton poet, Angela Kublik, Dymphny is the co-publisher and co-editor of House of Blue Skies renowned for several bestselling anthologies. She is also editor of the online Blue Skies Poetry journal.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Writing and Editing

  • Founder, publisher/editor, Between Gynes Magazine (1989-1992)
  • Founding member, editor, Art of the Peace Magazine (2002-2005)
  • Ghostwriter, project manager, with Iris Friesen, Mary Remembers. Prairie View Press (1997)
  • Dronyk, Dymphny. Contrary Infatuations. Frontenac House: Calgary, 2007. (Shortlisted for the prestigious Pat Lowther Award and the Stephan Stephansson Award for Poetry in 2008)
  • Dronyk, Dymphny and Angela Kublik (Editors). Writing the Land: Alberta through its Poets.  House of Blue Skies: Edmonton, 2007.
  • Dronyk, Dymphny and Angela Kublik (Editors). Home and Away: Alberta’s Poets Muse on the Meaning of Home.  House of Blue Skies: Edmonton, 2009.
  • Dronyk, Dymphny. Bibi – A Life in Clay, Prairie Art Gallery: Grande Prairie, 2009.
  • Dronyk, Dymphny and Kris Demeanor (Editors). The Calgary Project – A City Map in Verse and Visual, House of Blue Skies/Frontenac House: Calgary, 2014
  • Dronyk, Dymphny (Editor, author, with co-authors Kris Demeanor, Deborah Willis, Natalie Meisner, Ian Williams, Jani Krulc, Aritha van Herk, Cheryl Foggo, Clem Martini, Lisa Murphy-Lamb, Dale Lee Kwong, Telmo dos Santos, Harry Sanders). Noir on Eighth – a serial mystery novel in the grand tradition of the Penny Dreadful, House of Blue Skies: Calgary, 2015 & Paperback/ebook edition 2019
  • Dronyk, Dymphny (Curator, editor). Measures of Astonishment: Poets on Poetry, University of Regina Press/League of Canadian Poets: Regina, 2016

Anthologies:

  • Journey to the Interior, (An Anthology of Kootenay Women Writers), Kimberley Writers Group, 1986, eds. Luanne Armstrong, Irene Mock, Paulette Jiles
  • Grain, Saskatchewan Writers Guild, ed. Mick Burrs, 1988
  • Room of One’s Own (Working for a Living), Growing Room Collective, 1988, ed. Sandy Shreve
  • Paperwork: Contemporary Poems from the Job: Harbour Publishing, 1991, ed. Tom Wayman
  • Nose Mountain Moods, Smoky Peace Press, 2002, ed. Elroy Deimert
  • revue ellipse mag – Canadian writing in translation, 2010, ed. Jo-Anne Elder
  • Many Gifts, Nelson Education, 2014
  • FreeFall – Canada’s Magazine of Exquisite Writing – Fall Issue, 2013
  • 70 – FreeFall, 2017, ed. Juleta Severson-Baker
  • Beyond Forgetting – 100 Years of Al Purdy, (An anthology of poems written in tribute to Al Purdy), Harbour Publishing, 2018, eds. Howard White, Emma Skagen
  • Women and Environment International, Canadian Society for Ecological Economics, 2019, ed. Sonja Greckol

Freelance Journalism:

  • Alberta Views; Accent Magazine; Art of the Peace Magazine; Peace Country Farmer; Hythe Headliner; Kootenay Express; The Windmill; Focus on Women Magazine; Monday Magazine; Skim Magazine; Surf Magazine.

Theatre:

  • Liberation Days, David van Belle, playwright – Dutch translation and Dutch culture consultant
  • Ai Yah Sweet and Sour Secrets, Dale Lee Kwong, playwright – new play dramaturg/writing coach

Translation:

  • Various, translations (Dutch to English), Greystone Books Ltd.
  • Various, translations (Dutch to English), University of Alberta Press

Proofreading:

  • Orca Book Publishers
  • BC Government

Manuscript Evaluation & Catalogue Copy

  • University of Alberta Press
  • Greystone Books Ltd.

HONOURS

  • Astrocytoma – (Longlisted for the CBC Poetry Award, 1996)
  • Contrary Infatuations. Frontenac House: Calgary, 2007. (Shortlisted the Stephan Stephansson Award for Poetry in 2008)
  • Contrary Infatuations. Frontenac House: Calgary, 2007. (Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award Poetry in 2008)
  • Paris – en masse. Freefall Magazine: Calgary, 2013 (Shortlisted for the Alberta Magazine Publishers Award for Poetry in 2014)
  • The Calgary Project – A City Map in Verse and Visual, Dronyk, Dymphny and Kris Demeanor (Editors). House of Blue Skies/Frontenac House: Calgary, 2014 (Shortlisted for the Alberta Book Publishing Awards Book Illustration Award in 2015)
  • Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award Finalist, Iceland Writers Retreat, 2019

THEATRE

  • Langham Community Theatre, Kaslo, BC (1980-1987, performer)
  • Langham Improv Troupe, Kaslo, BC (1981-1986, performer)
  • Grande Prairie Live Theatre, Front of House, Set Decorator (1997-2009)
  • The Power of the Land, (organizer, scriptwriter, performer, co-director, 2007)
  • Heart’s Journey, Grande Prairie Live Theatre (organizer, scriptwriter, performer, four seasons)
  • Vagina Monologues, Douglas Cardinal Performing Arts Centre (organizer, performer, two seasons)
  • Arctic Winter Games International Performing Arts Gala, Douglas Cardinal Performing Arts Centre (2010, Performing Arts Chair, gala director)

VISUAL ART

  • Muse Gallery, Grande Prairie: Owner/curator, 2002-2009

MUSIC

  • Peace Starts at Home: annual all-ages music festival, organizer, 2005-2010
  • Red Cross Rocks: annual youth music festivals, organizer, 2005-2010
  • BC Music Project (rock music videos): volunteer set design & assistant producer, 1988-1989

RADIO

  • CJSW Writer’s Block: host/producer, 2017-present

FILM & VIDEO & PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Northfork Photography: owner/photographer, 1994-2007
  • Proof Perfect: owner, screenwriter, producer, director, 1994-2007
  • BC Music Project (rock music videos): volunteer set design & assistant producer, 1988-1989
  • Shooting Star Film Company (Amsterdam): freelance screenwriter, assistant director, 1987-1988

ARTS & COMMUNITY

  • Southern Alberta Brain Injury Society, board member & Vice President (2019-present)
  • WordFest Poetry Curator, and volunteer (2011 – 2018)
  • Creative Nonfiction Collective, 2016 Conference Planning Committee, 2017 Board Member
  • League of Canadian Poets/Writers Summit, 2016 Conference Planning Committee
  • Loft 112, Board Member & organizer/facilitator (2013 – 2015)
  • President, RE:act Art & Community Together Society, Founder/President (2011-2019)
  • Arctic Winter Games, Performing Arts Chair (2008-2010)
  • Arctic Winter Games, Culture Coach (2007-2008)
  • Lieutenant Governor Arts Awards Festival Committee: Wordspinner Rep (2008-2010)
  • Wordspinner Literary Festival: Fundraising Chair, President (2005-2010)
  • Reel Shorts Film Fest: Founding committee member, organizer (2007-2010)
  • Bishogama International Ceramic Workshop Alberta (BICWA Society): Director (1997-2010)
  • Bishogama International Residency Program (Co-founder/facilitator) (1997-2010)
  • Northfork Artist Retreat: Founder & facilitator (1996-2010)
  • Past President, Vice President, Secretary, and Alberta Rep, National Council, League of Canadian Poets (2007-2017)
  • Past President, Vice President, Secretary, and Task Group Chair, Writers’ Guild of Alberta (2004-2009)

SELECT RECENT PRESENTATIONS

  • The Olive Reading Series, Edmonton, February 2020
  • YYC Pop-Up Poetry, Calgary, April 2019
  • Writing the Wild, Single Onion Lecture Series, Curator/Lecturer, 2017
  • Jasper Community Habitat for the Arts Exhibition, 2017
  • Planet Earth Poetry, 2016
  • Pechakucha Night Calgary #18 – Medal!, 2013
  • Eco-Echo Poetics on the Move, Under Western Skies Conference – “From Sawmill to Festival Grounds,” 2014
  • Featured National Poetry Month poet by Calgary Public Library’s social media campaign, 2014
  • National Poetry Month Western Swing, organizer, poet (series of readings from Dawson Creek, BC through Alberta to Saskatoon, SK), 2006-2009

JUROR

  • Can You Hear Me Now? – Alberta Provincial Youth Poetry Slam
  • Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Literary Arts Grants
  • Manitoba Magazine Awards
  • Annual Collins Writing Contest (Grande Prairie Public Library)