March Update: The 2025 contest is now closed and the judges are reading your entries. Good luck! Original post: The Ottawa Public Library's Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest is open for entries! Young writers of the nation's capital, we want to read your stories, poems, and comics. Send them in before midnight on February 28th… Continue reading Awesome Authors 2025 is on!
March update: In the original post, I suggested that longcon magazine appeared to be on hiatus, but good news: it's active and awesome, and even open for submissions for issue 2.1. Check out the longcon website. Original post: I'm pleased to have a new story freshly published in the latest issue of The /tƐmz/ Review.… Continue reading New Short Fiction: “Night Life”
I'm pleased to have a new story freshly published in this season's Fiddlehead. Cover Image: Erica Beyea The Fiddlehead is one of Canada's oldest litmags, established in 1945. It's published quarterly, in print, out of the University of New Brunswick. And it's always a beautiful read. I've had a couple of stories its pages, including "Mr.… Continue reading New Short Fiction: “Everything hangs by a thread”
Back to school and bored already? Liven up the year with a visit to your school from a teaching artist -- like me. In Quebec, we have two great programs to help fund an author or artist visit to your school: Culture in the Schools and ArtistsInspire. Culture in the Schools The Ministry of Education's… Continue reading Funding for Writing Workshops in 2024-25
The Ottawa Public Library's Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest was another great success this year, and I was thrilled to be part of it. The winners will be honoured this fall, with the publication of this year's Pot-pourri, but you can read the list of winning Awesome Author 2024 entries right now on the OPL… Continue reading Awesome Authors 2024 Winners
