On TV! Writing awards for IAG members

Here are Dr. Robert Schemenauer and I on CFJC TV talking about writing awards for members of the Kamloops-based Interior Authors Group:

http://tinyurl.com/gwt7jnp

More info about these awards is at: http://elmams.wixsite.com/awards

 

 

 

 

Article about book YesterCanada & contest for Kamloops & area writers

Nice article today in KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK: http://tinyurl.com/gr8p623 .

 

Calling all Kamloops and area writers

Calling all Kamloops and area writers! The Dr. Robert and Elma Schemenauer Awards are now open for submissions-- until March 21.

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. There's no fee to enter (besides the IAG membership fee, $35).

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

For more information, please visit http://elmams.wixsite.com/awards .

 

writing opportunities Jan 17, 2017

The theme for this year’s Askew’s Foods Word on the Lake Writing contest is Canada. This contest, based in Salmon Arm, BC, will close at midnight on 1 March 2017.  For details: http://www.shuswapassociationofwriters.ca/word-on-the-lake-writing-contest-2017/ .

 

Polar Borealis Magazine, based in the Vancouver Lower Mainland, specializes in Canadian speculative writing. They’re open to poetry submissions: http://www.polarborealis.ca/  

400 and Falling Press accepts submissions from emerging writers: http://www.400andfallingpress.com/submissions/

 

Somewhat off-the-wall electronic journal DIAGRAM is open to submissions: http://thediagram.com/subs.html

poetry submissions invited

Ascent Aspirations of Nanoose Bay, British Columbia, invites poetry submissions. If you’re interested, you can e-mail your poem/s to ascentaspirations@shaw.ca along with a brief biography. No payment as far as I know. You can read some of their previously published poems at http://www.davidpfraser.ca/fridays-poems.html .

 

Lloyd Jeck authored the book In the Shadow of the Peaks [fascinating story of his early life, mostly around McBride, British Columbia]. He also wrote British Columbia Trails Heading North [adventures in the history of the province]. He just shared this article with me. Thanks, Lloyd, and thanks for your kind review.

YesterCanada on TV

Here I am with my book YesterCanada: Historical Tales of Mystery and Adventure on CFJC TV in Kamloops, British Columbia. Susan Edgell interviewed me. Thanks, Susan! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMZK686pMWo