City of Kamloops Seeking Interactive Booths for Canada Day Festivities

City of Kamloops | Press Release View this email in your browser For Immediate Release: March 28, 2019 City of Kamloops Seeking Interactive Booths for Canada Day Festivities Kamloops, BC – Planning is in full swing for the city's Canada Day celebration, and the City of Kamloops is currently accepting applications from community groups that are interested in joining the event. Be part of our national holiday celebration on Monday, July 1, 2019, at Riverside Park. This full-day event will begin at 8:00 am with a pancake breakfast and end with a colourful fireworks display at 10:30 pm. Riverside Park will be filled with arts, culture, music, and festivities, and we are looking for organizations to add to this year's event. Priority will be given to engaging, interactive booths and organizations that promote a creative message of community spirit to the 30,000 expected attendees.  Application forms can be found at Kamloops.ca/CanadaDay and must be submitted by May 2, 2019.   -30-   Media Contact: Dewi Evans Community Events Coordinator 250-828-3828 devans@kamloops.ca Share Tweet Forward Copyright © City of Kamloops All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: City of Kamloops  7 Victoria Street West, Kamloops  British Columbia, V2C 1A2  Phone 250 828 3311  Email info@kamloops.ca Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

two paying markets for Christian writing

Unlocked is a new daily devotional for teens, launching in Summer 2019. They invite teens and adults to submit gospel-centred devotional pieces: essay, poetry, personal story, fiction, or other written form. Info at https://unlocked.org/teen-devotional-guidelines/

St. Anthony Messenger is a Catholic monthly magazine that seeks to promote deeper faith, stronger family life, good citizenship, and greater economic justice—all in the spirit of St. Francis. Info at https://www.franciscanmedia.org/writers-guide

Spring market April 13

Interior Authors Group member Alex McGilvery will be among vendors at the 1st Annual Westsyde Spring Market Sat April 13. It runs from 8 AM to 2 PM at Westsyde Secondary School, 855 Babek Road. Alex will sell books by IAG members including himself. Please stop in if you can.

FreeFall Magazine contest: fiction & poetry

Contest for fiction & poetry sponsored by the Calgary-based FreeFall Magazine is open to submissions from Canadians through April 30, 2019. Cash prizes. Info at https://freefallmagazine.ca/subm.html

IAG meeting April 10: fairytales & critiquing

We enjoyed Andrew Chesham's presentation on marketing & mentoring at the IAG meeting March 20. At our next meeting, April 10, 2019, Eileen Bell will speak about writing fairy-tales. We'll also do some critiquing. You're invited to bring up to 2 pieces of writing, each 300 words or less. At the top of each, put your name & the type of writing it is, e.g. beginning of a story, description of a book, poem, song lyrics.

Writing Awards deadline March 21

The deadline for submissions for the Dr. Robert and Elma Schemenauer Writing Awards is coming SOON--midnight March 21. More info below. It would be great to get your submission!

  

TWO CATEGORIES OF AWARDS

1. Writing with a Kamloops Theme

2. Writing Showing an Appreciation of Nature

 

WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO ENTER

Each award will be issued annually to a member in good standing of the Interior Authors Group based in Kamloops, BC. There is no fee to enter. To join the Interior Authors Group, please visit https://interiorauthorsgroup.wordpress.com/join/ . Or mail a check for $35 (made out to Interior Authors Group) to Treasurer, 845 Gleneagles Drive, Kamloops, BC, V2E 1K2. If you're a student, the membership fee is $20. The family rate is $50. Please provide your contact information including e-mail address. You will receive a receipt.

 

AN AWARD WILL CONSIST OF

- a certificate and a press release issued to local media announcing the winner

- a cash award of $200 to the recipient

- a cash award of $100 to the Interior Authors Group to support the growth and educational activities of the IAG

 

SUBMISSIONS MUST BE

- sent before midnight 21 March

- a short story, poem, article, essay, or other form of writing where an understanding and appreciation of the category's topic is clearly incorporated and expressed (EITHER Kamloops-Themed or Nature-Themed). Ideologically driven and advocacy messages will not be considered.

- an original work that is unpublished in print or digital form

- a different work for each category (maximum one submission per author per category)

- clearly identified--include at top of  first page of each submission the title, author's name, and email address or telephone number

-accompanied by a picture of yourself if possible (will be sent with the press release if you win)

- submitted electronically in a Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format with EITHER the words Award Kamloops or the words Award Nature in the subject line

 

E-MAIL SUBMISSIONS TO

fogquest [at symbol] shaw [dot] ca

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GRANTING OF THE AWARD

The next award winners will be announced at the summer social of the IAG. Names of those making submissions will not be announced and the authors will retain full rights to their works. No author will be able to win more than one award in one calendar year. If no submission is felt to meet the requirements, the award will not be issued in a given year.

 

For more information about the Interior Authors Group, please visit:

 

https://interiorauthorsgroup.wordpress.com/about/

 

http://tinyurl.com/p7eugwq 

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These awards are privately established and awarded by Dr. Robert & Elma Schemenauer. They are not created by the Interior Authors Group of Kamloops. However, they are exclusively for members of the IAG and are given to help support and recognize writers in Kamloops and area.

To read winning entries from previous years, visit http://elmams.wixsite.com/awards 

NO IAG meeting this Wed, next mtg March 20

Interior Authors Group meetings are usually the second Wednesday of the month. However, this month the meeting is the third Wednesday, i.e. March 20. At that meeting, Andrew Chesham of Simon Fraser University will speak about marketing [our writing] and mentoring. It would be great to see you there. 6:30 PM, North Shore Community Centre on Cottonwood. 

novel-revising tips

Revising your novel? Good tips here: https://tinyurl.com/yxcvmsrp

writing a query letter

Tips on writing a query letter to a literary agent or publisher regarding your novel or memoir: http://writersrelief.com/2019/02/28/query-letter-cheat-sheet-for-novels-and-memoirs-pitch-like-a-pro-writers-relief/ . [Ignore the ads if you wish.]