Posted on January 11, 2022
by Catherine Austen
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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! Learn all the details from the Awesome Authors page… Continue Reading “Awesome Authors 2022 is on!”
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Category: author talks, contests, featured, What's New, writing workshops, young writersTags: amelinda berube, Apollo the Child, awesome authors, Eric Peladeau, featured, FOPLA, OPL, ottawa, ottawa events, Ottawa Public Library, ottawa writers, Pierre-Luc Belanger, pot pourri, short stories, writers' markets, writing contests, writing workshops, young writers, youth poetry, youth writing, youth writing contest
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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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
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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Posted on February 8, 2019
by Catherine Austen
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I’ll be giving a writing workshop tomorrow at the Carlingwood Library to help kids aged 9-12 prepare their stories for the Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Authors Contest. We’ll do two story-building exercises: one on Character, and one on Setting.
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Posted on December 8, 2018
by Catherine Austen
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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… Continue Reading “Awesome Authors 2019 – Submission Call”
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