2020 Winners Announced

The Award Ceremony for the Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest had to be cancelled this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. So the judges (including me) made short videos to announce this year’s winners and honourable mentions, and the wonderful folks at the library put it all together into two ceremonial videos: one for ages 9-12 and one for ages 13-18.

And you will be able to read them in the fall 2020 edition of Pot-pourri.

Pot Pourri is an annual youth writing anthology published by the Friends of the Ottawa Public Library, featuring the winners of the Awesome Authors contest.

There were so many great stories and poems entered this year! I could fill an entire book with just the best stories from the 9-12 category, and it would be great reading. If your submission is not among the winners announced this year, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t among the best. We just had too many “bests” to fit them all in.

We look forward to reading your submissions to next year’s contest. In the meantime, I hope you spend some of the summer writing stories. 🙂

4 Comments on “2020 Winners Announced”

Mariana
December 1, 2020

Thank you for being an awesome person!!!

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- Mariana
  December 1, 2020
  
  Who do you think will win next year??
  
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  - Catherine Austen
    December 1, 2020
    
    I don’t know. The contest hasn’t quite opened yet. There are months left to write and submit. The winner could be any kind of story — funny, heartbreaking, realistic, fantasy, historical, futuristic, anything at all. Will you be entering? I hope so. 🙂
- Catherine Austen
  December 1, 2020
  
  🙂 You are too sweet! Thanks.
  
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