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Awesome Authors 2023 (Update)

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Catherine Austen

Awesome Authors 2023 is on!

Posted on January 18, 2023 by Catherine Austen

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! The contest opened on January 10th and it closes… Continue Reading “Awesome Authors 2023 is on!”

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Awesome Authors 2022 is on!

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Catherine Austen

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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!”

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!”

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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”