Wayde Compton

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

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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 teaches in the faculty of Creative Writing at Douglas College.

In 1996 he penned the semi-autobiographical poem "Declaration of the Halfrican Nation".Clarke, George Elliott, [https://books.google.com/books?id=02WgzSvWyMQC&dq=Halfrican&pg=PA229 Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature], University of Toronto Press, 2002, p. 229.Compton, Wayde, [https://books.google.com/books?id=R5Ugckyk-bUC&dq=Halfrican&pg=PA15 Performance Bond], Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004, p. 15.