Creative Writing
Posted on February 8, 2023 by Catherine Austen
I’m resurrecting my old list of Young Writers’ Markets because there are so many young writers who are not eligible to submit to the Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest. What are they to do with their awesome stories, poems, and comics?… Continue Reading “Young Writers’ Markets”
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Posted on December 23, 2022 by Catherine Austen
Updated February 2023 (with links to a new children’s story, “Balloon Party,” a fresh take on “Stone Soup” published on the Blue Met website). Back to the 2022 post….I’m resurrecting my old list of Canadian litmags because it’s just so handy for short story… Continue Reading “Stories and Litmags”
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Posted on July 28, 2017 by Catherine Austen
My latest short story, “Mr. Boots,” has just come out in the Summer 2017 issue of The Fiddlehead. (Yes, that’s me peeking inside the magazine at left, and yes, I could use some eye drops and a mascara wand. What can I say? I’ve… Continue Reading “My Latest Story (Not for Children)”
Posted on January 16, 2017 by Catherine Austen
I wrote short stories in my youth and published a dozen in Canadian literary journals–long defunct ones like Writ and Quarry, and still-going-strong ones like The Windsor Review and The New Quarterly (it really was a new quarterly back then). Though I’ve kept up… Continue Reading “Canadian Literary Short Fiction Markets (A-E)”