Holly Jolly Frivolity

Gordon Kirkland brings his award-winning humor writing to the topic of the holiday season. He exposes the world to his feelings about everything from children's Christmas pageants, to artificial trees, and holiday lights. Fans of Kirkland's other five collections of short humorous stories (three of which received the Stephen Leacock Award of Merit for Humour, ) will enjoy more of his unique style focusing on the fun and foibles of daily life during the so-called joyous season. In this collection, Kirkland stretches his muscles as a lyricist, writing new words for several old and familiar holiday songs. For Better Or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston says, "I love to read his stuff, I just wouldn't want to be married to him." (It's a sentiment shared by a lot of women who sympathize with his long suffering wife, Diane.) Fellow humor writer, Dave Barry says, "As a fellow class clown suffering from maturity impairment, I salute him." See for yourself, Kirkland will have you ho-ho-hoing from start to finish

Gordon Kirkland is a three-time recipient of the Stephen Leacock Award of Merit as a finalist for the Leacock Medal for his collections of humorous essays. He has garnered a very large and loyal fan base inthe United States and Canada, as well as elsewhere around the world. Gordon Kirkland has been a workshop leader and keynote speaker at dozens of writer’s conferences, festivals, and university programs over the past fifteen years. This includes three sessions of the University of Dayton’s Erma Bombeck Writer’s Workshop, six years on the faculty of the Southern California Writer’s Conference, as well as many more. He has lectured at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC), Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana), The University of Georgia (Athens, GA), and Florida First Coast Community College (Jacksonville, FL.) In 2009, Kirkland was one of the stars of The 3-Day Novel, a television series on Canada’s BookTelevision, in which 12 Canadian writers were locked in a large bookstore with the task of writing a full novel in just 72 hours. This was carried out under the watchful eye of television cameras, store customers, and with numerous interruptions aimed at breaking the writers’ trains of thought. Gordon lives in Pitt Meadows, BC with, Diane, and their adopted Labrador Retriever, Tara. They have two grown sons.