Books & Animals
Posted on May 17, 2019 by Catherine Austen
Interested in one of my Author Presentations or Writing Workshops? Good news! Financial assistance for author visits is available throughout Canada, thanks to the generous support of our governments working with the literary non-profit community. A couple of key funding programs have looming deadlines…
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Posted on March 30, 2018 by Catherine Austen
This Tuesday, I had the pleasure of calling the names of twelve young writers whose short fiction won places in the Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Authors Contest. What a pleasure to be one of this year’s judges and to read excerpts from the fantastic…
Category: author talks, books, children's books, contests, public speaking, school visits, writing, young writersTags: author talks, author visits, awesome authors, bishop's university, books, Canadian writers, children's books, children's novels, Contests, creative process, english literature, Friends of the Ottawa Public Library, history of children's literature, Ottawa Public Library, public speaking, reading, school visits, symmes d'arcy, walking backward, writers, writing, writing contests, writing workshops
Posted on May 12, 2017 by Catherine Austen
My home town, Gatineau, is one of this year’s hosts of Canada’s largest festival of reading. We’re an official “Reading Town” this month, with events and presentations that come to a close tomorrow. It’s all part of the National Reading Campaign’s mission to make reading…
Posted on February 2, 2014 by Catherine Austen
Glossophobia. The fear of speaking in public. Also called “speech anxiety,” this is the most common phobia in North America. Three out of four people suffer from it — and we suspect there’s something wrong with that fourth guy. I mean, honestly, what kind…
Category: books, fearless february, phobias, public speakingTags: 28 tricks for a fearless grade 6, fear, glossophobia, speeches