'Tis the season for the Ottawa Public Library's Awesome Author Contest! Local writers aged 9-17 have a couple of months to shine up their best poems and stories for the 2016 competition. If your work is already shiny, you can enter it right now. If you want some professional help in polishing your words -- or digging up words… Continue reading Ottawa’s Awesome Authors Contest
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Yesterday’s News and Tomorrow’s Talks
I was at this year's KidLit Cafe, an annual celebration of local children's authors and illustrators hosted by the Ottawa Public Library and the Ottawa Children's Literature Round Table. (That's old news but it's all I've got at hand.) If you didn't catch all the authors at left - Alan Neal, me (Catherine Austen), Don Cummer, Cécile… Continue reading Yesterday’s News and Tomorrow’s Talks
Browsing the Shelves
Here are a couple of my favourite library book displays, made for people like me, who forget titles and authors and have to sing the whole alphabet song to remember whether Philips or Plath comes first. and Thanks to the Carlingwood branch of the Ottawa Public Library. (I took the photos sometime last fall. Not sure… Continue reading Browsing the Shelves
Catherine Austen 