hoadworks inc. - Adrian Hoad-Reddick Bio

Adrian Hoad-Reddick is a teacher, poet, radio host, educational consultant and CEO of Hoadworks, inc. 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. His favourite authors include Richard Russo, Ian McEwan, Tim Winton, David Mitchell, Peter Carey, Priscila Uppal, Paolo Bacigalupi, China Mieville and poets ee cummings, Wislawa Symborska, Pablo Neruda, Billy Collins and Atsuro Riley.

Adrian, a tireless champion of the written word, loves to inspire aspiring writers. Adrian's Bookhooks .com website allows active readers to publish illustrated book reviews online. Bookhooks reached a milestone of 25,000 published reports in December 2011. The Poem Repair Shop is the headquarters of Adrian's online Writer's Craft course and is the web home of his weekly live literary radio show co-produced with students..

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

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 most popular crossword puzzles feature Kenneth Oppel's Airborn series, many of the Harry Potter titles, and The Great Gatsby.

Adrian's Vocabaret (formerly Wordly-Wise) listserver delivers daily wordplay to thousands of subscribers. Adrian has developed computer games, including Cobble: Solitaire for Word Lovers (in beta mode on Facebook and in development for mobile devices) and the animated head-to-head trivia game The Brainslider.

Adrian lives in Elora, Ontario with his wife, Susan, and two children, Kate and Matthew.

And look, he did excellent work on April 26!

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