John Stiles was born and raised in the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia and currently lives in London, England. John is the subject of the critically acclaimed and innovative poetry documentary Scouts are Cancelled. Called 'the best literary biography of the past decade', John has received acclaim in: Publishers Weekly, The New York Times in the US and in over twenty literary magazines across Canada. John has worked as a rock-n-roll roadie, door-to-door salesman, telemarketter, school teacher, and as a library assistant in London. Scouts are Cancelled, the original book on which the documentary is based can be obtained from Insomniac Press, Toronto, CANADA. A new novel Taking The Stairs is forthcoming from Nightwood Editions in Vancouver, CANADA.

 

 

 

 

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EXPATRIATE, 44 min, CAN/U.S,  Atlantic Film Festival `96

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SARAH SEEMS, 22 mins,
DAWC Workshop, Toronto (Sponsored by TMN, The Harold Greenberg Fund and The OFDC)

LYING IN SNOW, 22 mins: 1998, Bellevue Films