Hello. My name is Simon Crowley and this is simoncrowley.net.


Welcome

Introduction

I’m a professional writer based in Edmonton, Alberta and a veteran of the MacEwan School of Communications.

I’m an occasional poet and amateur photographer. I maintain the official website of Toronto musician Vivek Shraya. Sometimes I design for web and print.

I have strong feelings about Canadian English, etymological rigour, and the serial comma.

Recently

Captain Hook vs. The Zombies, the play I wrote with Mike Young, sold out three shows at the 28th Edmonton International Fringe Festival. Mike and I were interviewed on the 17 August episode of The Unknown Studio.


Writing

Captain Hook vs. The Zombies

Captain Hook vs. The Zombies playbill

In 2009, the play I wrote with Mike Young—featuring the heroic Captain Hook and swashbuckling Peter Pan battling Dr. Crocodile’s evil army of undead—sold out four shows at the 28th Edmonton International Fringe Festival.

SEE Magazine called it “fast and furious… full of twists and turns,” and Vue Weekly praised its “subtle charm.”

Desire Lines

Desire Lines cover

My first self-published collection of poetry sold enough copies to break even and, submitted for extra credit, earned me the only A+ grade of my post-secondary career.

Desire lines are the foot-worn paths pedestrians create across spaces with no man-made walkways. Though they represent the most direct route from origin to destination, they are never perfectly straight.

Twig

Twig cover

In 2007, I contributed to, designed, and served as consulting editor for Twig, a collection of student poetry.

Summer Things

Summer Things cover

More immediate and less polished than Desire Lines, the chapbook I released in the fall of ’07 was a small handful of poems about drugs, disappointment, and desperation. The edition was very limited.

Unreal City: Palimpsest

Three of my poems appeared in an exhibit of student work at the 2007 Works Art and Design Festival.

Freelance writing

I’ve been a professional writer for eight years, and have experience in technical, business, and promotional writing, proofreading and copyediting, and sundry other acts of wordsmithery. If you have words you don’t want to smith yourself, I might be your man. Get in touch and we’ll work something out.


Photos

The Space Project: “Interstices”

I contributed six photos and a poem to a collaborative exhibit at the 2008 Works Art and Design Festival: nine other poets, one other photographer, and I explored notions of interstices—liminal spaces, charged emotional gaps—through word and image.

The Space Project was called “the most uplifting exhibit I saw affiliated with The Works this year.… just on the fringe and the only exhibit that made any sense.”

  • door
  • Narrow alley
  • tunnel
  • transit
  • watching
  • cogs

Other photography

Selections from my Flickr account will be featured soon.

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Design

Captain Hook vs. The Zombies

A tight budget and tighter schedule had me preparing posters, programmes, and press kits for Apocalypse Arts’ action-comedy-horror.

Captain Hook vs. The Zombies promotional materials

vivekshraya.com

I’ve been responsible for designing and maintaining the official website of Toronto musician Vivek Shraya since 2003, most recently redesigning in 2007, upon the release of his fourth album, If We’re Not Talking.

A new album—and website—are due this fall.

vivekshraya.com screenshot

Twig

In addition to serving as contributor to and editor of the 2007 student poetry collection Twig, I also designed the cover and interior layout.

Twig design

A Composite of Straight Lines

In 2005, I designed the packaging for Vivek Shraya’s third album.

A Composite of Straight Lines design



Contact

Email

Email is the most effective way to reach me: .

Mailing address

303–10547 83 Ave NW
Edmonton AB  T6E 2E1
Canada

Other

Colophon

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