I’m thrilled to have a short story in the latest issue of The Dalhousie Review — my first one in its pages. The magazine was founded in 1921 and is still in print after 100 years. Amazing. My story, “Down the Drain,” is about… Continue Reading “Short Stories”
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I was fortunate to receive a Research and Creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts last year, funding the past 8 months of dedicated writing time so I could draft a new teen novel. And today I drafted the final scene of… Continue Reading “Thank-you, Canada Council for the Arts!”
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Posted on January 11, 2022
by Catherine Austen
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The Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest is back! Young writers of the nation’s capital, get to work on your poems, short stories, and comics. You could win publication, glory, cold hard cash! Learn all the details from the Awesome Authors page… Continue Reading “Awesome Authors 2022 is on!”
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Posted on September 14, 2021
by Catherine Austen
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It has been a long time coming! My new picture book, When the Squirrels Stole my Sister, illustrated by Sean Cassidy, will be published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside this fall. Just in time to stock up on nuts. Love squirrels? Check out all the… Continue Reading “My Latest Picture Book”
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