Carol L. MacKay (Metro Vancouver) has been announced the winner of the 2020 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for Poetry for her poem, “Moving Day Villanelle,” which was published in the summer 2019 issue of the Irish children’s magazine The Caterpillar. Vancouver Island Regional Library also selected Carol’s poem, “A Tailor Visits Englishman River”, as one of ten…
The Sound of a Rainbow, a new novel by Sharon Frayne (Niagara Branch), has received CBC Books Recommendations for YA Readers. As well as participating in the Eden Mills Writers Festival and Bookapalooza, Frayne is the featured guest at the Niagara Parks Coast to Coast ‘Family Women’ Literary Series, on November 9, at the Laura Secord…
On September 30, Scott Overton (Member at Large) published his 6th novel, Indigent Earth, a science fiction adventure with a strong theme of colonialism, fitting in well with the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. Indigent Earth takes place 500 years after the rich and powerful have abandoned the damaged Earth. Learn more at www.scottoverton.ca.