{"id":1751,"date":"2022-06-14T19:32:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T23:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/nationalcapitalregion\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2022-06-14T19:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T23:33:02","slug":"winners-of-2022-ncwc-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/nationalcapitalregion\/winners-of-2022-ncwc-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of 2022 NCWC announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Winners of the 35th annual National Capital Writing Contest\n were announced during an online ceremony on\nTuesday, June 14, 2022<\/strong>\n6:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Congratulations to all the finalists!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Short Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
First Place:<\/strong> \u201cThe Hardest Grief in the World,\u201d by Pamela Porter\nSecond Place:<\/strong> \u201cStill Living,\u201d by Anna Rumin\nThird Place:<\/strong> \u201cDoor to Portal: A Salesman\u2019s Story,\u201d by Adam Jarvis<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Honourable Mentions<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Grocer's Tale,\u201d by Adrienne Stevenson \n\u201cSurf and Turf\u201d by Pat Hunter \n\u201cAftermath,\u201d by Theresa Ann Wallace<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
First Place: <\/strong>\u201cHaving Something a Little Stronger with You,\u201d by Miller Adams \nSecond Place: <\/strong>\u201cThe Depths Below\u201d by Lee Ann Eckhardt Smith \nThird Place:<\/strong> \u201cBreathing Dvorak\u201d by Finley Mullally<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Honourable Mentions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Question\u201d by Rona Shaffran \n\u201cA Poem for Lucy Lane\u201d by Louise McDiarmid \n\u201cAfternoon Tea,\u201d by Lori Eileen Gandy<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Judges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Heather O’Neill<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heather O\u2019Neill is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Her most recent bestselling novel, The Lonely Hearts Hotel<\/em>, won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and CBC’s Canada Reads. Her previous work, which includes Lullabies for Little Criminals<\/em>, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night<\/em> and Daydreams of Angels<\/em>, has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize two years in a row. She has won CBC’s Canada Reads and the Danuta Gleed Award.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Lorna Crozier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
An Officer of the Order of Canada, Lorna Crozier’s books have received numerous national awards, including the Governor-General\u2019s Award for Poetry. The Globe and Mail declared The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things<\/em> one of its Top 100 Books of the Year, and Amazon chose her memoir as one of the 100 books you should read in your lifetime. A Professor Emerita at the University of Victoria, she has performed for Queen Elizabeth II and has read her poetry, which has been translated into several languages, on every continent except Antarctica. Her book, What the Soul Doesn’t Want<\/em>, was nominated for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Brought to you by the support of \nMill Street Books<\/strong>, Almonte, ON, \nBurnstown Publishing House<\/strong>, Burnstown, ON\nand the \nCanadian Authors Association - National Capital Region<\/strong>. \n\nAny questions or concerns? Contact us at NCRadmin@canadianauthors.org<\/a><\/strong><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Winners of the 35th annual National Capital Writing Contest were announced during an online ceremony on Tuesday, June 14, 2022 6:30 p.m. Congratulations to all the finalists! Short Story First Place: \u201cThe Hardest Grief in the World,\u201d by Pamela Porter Second Place: \u201cStill Living,\u201d by Anna Rumin Third Place: \u201cDoor…<\/p>\n
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