Author/ Poet Ken Puddicombe’s (Toronto Branch) collection of short stories, Down Independence Boulevard and Other Stories, was awarded the 2022 Guyana Prize for Literature: Fiction. Ken was presented the prize by Prime Minister Mark Phillips, in a ceremony in Georgetown, Guyana, in February 2023. Find out more about Ken and his books at www.kenpud.wordpress.com.
Maureen Young (BC Branch) is pleased to announce the publication of her books, Sunny and the Border Patrol and Sunny and the Border Patrol Companion Coloring Book, through Friesen Press on June 30, 2023. Maureen’s debut bookl made the Friesen Press bestseller list for the week of August 7, 2023. Sunny and the Border Patrol was…
The novel Take Me Back to Cairo by bestselling author Pamela Paterson (National Capital Region) and Tarek Hussein is “compelling and heartwarming”, says Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Yousef’s aspiration to fit into his new country of Canada is upended by the lies he hears from both sides–his traditional family trying…