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Awesome Authors 2022 is on!

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Catherine Austen

Summer 2022 update: Winners of this year’s Awesome Authors contest are announced here on the Ottawa Public Library’s YouTube channel. 🙂 *Original Post: The Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest is back! Young writers of the nation’s capital, get to work on… Continue Reading “Awesome Authors 2022 is on!”

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Awesome Authors is on!

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Catherine Austen

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MAY 2021 Update: The Library has just announced the winners of the this year’s Awesome Authors contest! Check out the announcements on YouTube. You can watch right here (below) or visit the OPL’s YouTube channel and view the Ages 9-12 results or the Ages… Continue Reading “Awesome Authors is on!”

Category: author talks, contests, What's New, writing workshops, young writersTags: amelinda berube, Apollo the Child, awesome authors, Eric Peladeau, FOPLA, karine Perron, OPL, ottawa, ottawa events, Ottawa Public Library, ottawa writers, pot pourri, short stories, writers markets, writing contests, writing workshops, young writers, youth poetry, youth writing, youth writing contest

2020 Winners Announced

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Catherine Austen

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The Award Ceremony for the Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest had to be cancelled this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. So the judges (including me) made short videos to announce this year’s winners and honourable mentions, and the wonderful folks… Continue Reading “2020 Winners Announced”

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Book Launch of Pot-pourri 2019

Posted on November 22, 2019 by Catherine Austen

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Dozens of young writers in Ottawa will attend their book launch next week, as the Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Association (FOPLA) launches the latest volume of Pot-pourri. Pot-pourri 2019 features all the winners and honourable mentions from this year’s Awesome Authors contest… Continue Reading “Book Launch of Pot-pourri 2019”

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Awesome Authors 2019 – Decision Time

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Catherine Austen

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Every year, the Ottawa Public Library holds a youth writing contest for which hundreds of local kids write stories, poems, and comics. The winners and honourable mentions are published in the annual anthology, Pot-pourri. But the contest’s title — Awesome Authors — applies to… Continue Reading “Awesome Authors 2019 – Decision Time”