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Celebrating Literacy

Catherine Austen

I'm thrilled to be heading to Shawville, Quebec, next month for "Get the Word Out!," a literacy festival hosted by the Western Quebec Literacy Council. I'll be joining other local artists and authors Jamaal Jackson Rogers, Robin Blackburn McBride, Seymour Hamilton, Katharine Fletcher, and Venetia Crawford for a day of poetry, stories, workshops and presentations… Continue reading Celebrating Literacy

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Immersed in Student Writing

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 mix of winning stories: humour, drama, sci-fi, horror, and sad, sad… Continue reading Immersed in Student Writing