{"id":1453,"count":3,"description":"<div><strong>Brecken Hancock<\/strong> is a poet, essayist and screenwriter whose work has appeared in\u00a0<i>Tolka<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Hazlitt, Best American Experimental Writing,\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0<i>Best Canadian Poetry<\/i>. Her first book,\u00a0<i>Broom Broom<\/i>\u00a0(Coach House, 2014), won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, was shortlisted for the ReLit Award, and was named by\u00a0<i>The Globe &amp; Mail<\/i>\u00a0as a debut of the year. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, was a finalist for the RBC Emerging Artist Award, and read at the American Library of Congress in Washington D.C. as part of the US\/Canada Capital Poetry Exchange. Brecken\u2019s screenplay \u201cDon\u2019t Tell Me How Nice It\u2019s Gonna Be\u201d\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\">was a finalist in the 2022 SWN Screenplay Competition &amp; quarterfinalist for Final Draft's Big Break. She lives in Ottawa.<\/span><\/div>\r\n<div><\/div>","link":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/creator\/brecken-hancock\/","name":"Brecken Hancock","slug":"brecken-hancock","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=1453"},{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources?categories=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}