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 for a chance to win prizes and publication. The Awesome Authors contest is open to Ottawa youth writing in… Continue reading Awesome Authors 2026 is on!
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!
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
[December 2024 update: I've now posted all 22 of the major arcana, so check out my Tarot Gallery. Click on any card for a set of writing prompts, and follow links to detailed card descriptions. I hope it inspires you.] [Original post...] Recently, a fellow writer suggested using tarot cards as free-writing prompts for some… Continue reading Tarot Prompts for Writers
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
Catherine Austen 