HoadWorks Puzzles - Adrian Hoad-Reddick Bio

ADRIAN HOAD-REDDICK
is a teacher, poet, radio host, magazine consultant and owner of a new media company that promotes creativity and literacy through innovative educational content, resources and games. Adrian has over twenty years of English language and literature teaching experience and he never grows any less inspired by the closing lines of The Great Gatsby, or the opening lines of Watership Down. Adrian, a tireless champion of the written word, loves to inspire aspiring writers. The Poem Repair Shop is the headquarters for his online Writer's Craft course and is the web home of his weekly live literary radio show co-produced with his students.

Adrian is Chair of the Conference of Independent Teachers of English (CITE) and publisher of the InCITE anthology of student writing. He is the author liaison and emcee for the Elora Writers' Festival and he coordinates Young Writers' Workshops for the Eden Mills Writers' Festival.

Adrian is a word puzzle fan and computer enthusiast. His word puzzles have appeared in Games Magazine, Games' World of Puzzles, Reader's Digest, Health Quarterly and What If? magazine. His crossword puzzles for young readers can be found on Kenneth Oppel's website, and his Harry Potter crosswords have challenged muggles on the Raincoast Books' site. Adrian's Vocabaret (formerly Wordly-Wise) listserver delivers daily wordplay to thousands of subscribers. Adrian has developed computer games, including Wordsworth: Solitaire for Word Lovers, and the animated head-to-head trivia game The Brainslider.

Adrian lives in Elora, Ontario with his wife and two children. And look, he did excellent work on April 26!

Corel READ

During a sabbatical year, Adrian served as Director of Instructional Design at Toronto-based Hoffmann + associates, inc where he led the development of the adult literacy CD-ROM, Corel R.E.A.D.

Adrian contributed writing and educational game design for H+a's kids' title Nikolai's Pharoahs and created the children's and educational websites while teaching adult classes in The Elements of Web Style.