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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Contest for unpublished Canadian writers: May 19 deadline

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PEN Canada is now accepting English-language submissions for the 2024 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award. DEADLINE MAY 19. The annual award sup...
Monday, April 1, 2024

Canadian hero opportunity

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Deadline April 21, 2024. Latitude 46 of Sudbury, Ontario, is open to submissions of fictional or true or partly true "stories from acro...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Interior Authors Group Christmas Social Dec 13, 2023 at The Dunes Restaurant, Kamloops, BC

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Thursday, November 30, 2023

Canadian market for short fiction, poetry, flash fiction

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Funicular is an Edmonton-based magazine that publishes short stories, poetry, & flash fiction. Submissions guidelines here. https://funi...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

rejected?

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Did an editor or editors reject your writing? Good article here on what you could consider doing next. https://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/55...
Monday, October 2, 2023

advice for older writers

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Good advice here. https://tinyurl.com/4adpkrcs
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Friday, September 29, 2023

Aldo Renaldo and the Renegade Alphabet picture book launch tomorrow Chapters 12-2pm

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Kamloops author and university professor Dr. George M. Johnson's newest picture book, Aldo Renaldo and the Renegade Alphabet, is about l...
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Elma Schemenauer
My novel Song for Susie Epp starts in 1970. Susie, daughter of a Vancouver pill addict, sets out to build a better life for herself. Co-worker and fellow Mennonite Simon loves her courage—and her. But marrying him comes with a pushy, sanctimonious mother-in-law, Adeline. She manipulates Susie and Simon into leaving their beloved British Columbia grassland and moving to her Saskatchewan farming community. There, a shocking secret plunges Simon into depression and drinking. As Susie struggles to find a way forward, she gains a new empathy, resilience, and understanding of faith and freedom. Susie’s story features some of the same characters as Elma’s earlier novel Consider the Sunflowers. Song for Susie Epp, published by Farland Press, is 264 pages, paperback $22.99, e-book $5.99. Ask for it in a bookstore or library. Or order from one of its online sellers. They include Amazon, Indigo, and Kobo.
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