Posted on December 11, 2015
by Catherine Austen
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‘Tis the season for the Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Author Contest! Local writers aged 9-17 have a couple of months to shine up their best poems and stories for the 2016 competition. If your work is already shiny, you can enter it right now. If you want some… Continue Reading “Ottawa’s Awesome Authors Contest”
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Category: author talks, authors, contests, public libraries, What's New, writing, young writersTags: author visits, awesome authors, Caroline Pignat, Contests, J.C. Sulzenko, Michel Lavoie, Ottawa Public Library, poetry workshop, writing contests, writing workshops, young writers
Posted on September 14, 2015
by Catherine Austen
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Looking for somewhere to submit your work? Fishing for a topic for your next story? Here are a few suggestions and opportunities coming up in September and October 2015. For Teachers and Students: The Ocean Trash Write-Away Short Fiction Contest: Writers under 25 are… Continue Reading “Monday Markets: Upcoming Writing Contests and Calls for Submission”
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Category: contests, monday markets, writers' markets, writing, young writersTags: ayn rand essay contest, Contests, new voices award, ocean trash write-away contest, those who make us, writers markets, writing contests
I am back after a 2-month blogging break, and I’m bringing the best intentions of posting weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, or whenever I remember from this point onward. (To those who wonder, “If I lay off blogging and Facebook for 2 months, will I free up enough… Continue Reading “Spring Contests for Writers”
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Attention young writers! The Ottawa Public Library’s annual Awesome Authors contest is now accepting poems and stories from Ottawa-area youth aged 9-17. Deadline February 16th. Not in Ottawa? No worries. If you’ve got your act together RIGHT NOW, you can enter the Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest… Continue Reading “Writing Contests with Looming Deadlines”
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Posted on April 14, 2014
by Catherine Austen
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Do you have immortal longings in you? Is there no creature loves you? Could you be bounded in a nutshell and count yourself a king of infinite space were it not that you have bad dreams? Now’s your chance to tell all. To celebrate Shakespeare’s… Continue Reading “Be a Bard: CBC’s Shakespeare Selfie Challenge”
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