Dorothee Komangapik (Member at Large) is pleased to announce the release of her book, Ukuaq: A Woman’s Arctic Memoir (Crowe Creations, 2022), now available on amazon.ca in paperback and digital formats. This is a memoir, ranging from 1974 to 1986 with flashbacks, illustrated with author and archival photos. Details at https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/6318ed5b6f49c0fd8f2be640.
Pamela Dillon (Member at Large) won first place in the 58th New Millennium 2025 Writing Awards for Nonfiction with her essay, “The Visitation”. She was a shortlist winner in the 2024 gritLIT Short Story Contest for her essay “How to Settle an Old Dog”, and her creative nonfiction essay, “Begin Again”, made the longlist for the…
Susan J. Atkinson’s (National Capital Region chapter) ong-listed suite, Alice, Circa 1985, will be published as a chapbook, re-titled as Alice In The City, in 2025 by Anstruther Press. She was named Honourable Mention in The New Quarterly’s 2023 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest and was Longlisted for Exile Edition’s 2023 Ruth and David Lampe Poetry…