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? Well... If you are a young writer in Canada with no… Continue reading Young Writers’ Markets
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 on February 24th. Learn all the details from the Awesome Authors… Continue reading Awesome Authors 2023 is on!
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 your poems, short stories, and comics. You could win publication, glory,… Continue reading Awesome Authors 2022 is on!
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 13-18 results. https://www.youtube.com/embed/9Y8kY544X14 This year's winners in the 9-12 age category… Continue reading Awesome Authors is on!
It's time for all the young writers in Ottawa to get their awesome on! The Ottawa Public Library wants you to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and write a poem, short story, or comic (or all three!) to enter into the OPL's 2019 Awesome Authors youth writing contest. The contest is open to Ottawa… Continue reading Awesome Authors 2019 – Submission Call
Catherine Austen 