We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 NCWC

The poets and short story writers were honoured during an online ceremony on
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
6:30 p.m.

Congratulations to all the finalists!

Short Story

First Place: “The Hardest Grief in the World,” by Pamela Porter
Second Place: “Still Living,” by Anna Rumin
Third Place: “Door to Portal: A Salesman’s Story,” by Adam Jarvis

Honourable Mentions

“The Grocer's Tale,” by Adrienne Stevenson 
“Surf and Turf” by Pat Hunter 
“Aftermath,” by Theresa Ann Wallace

Poetry

First Place: “Having Something a Little Stronger with You,” by Miller Adams
Second Place: “The Depths Below” by Lee Ann Eckhardt Smith
Third Place: “Breathing Dvorak” by Finley Mullally

Honourable Mentions

“The Question” by Rona Shaffran 
“A Poem for Lucy Lane” by Louise McDiarmid 
“Afternoon Tea,” by Lori Eileen Gandy

Judges

Heather O’Neill

Heather O’Neill is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Her most recent bestselling novel, The Lonely Hearts Hotel, 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, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Daydreams of Angels, 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.

Lorna Crozier

An Officer of the Order of Canada, Lorna Crozier’s books have received numerous national awards, including the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry. The Globe and Mail declared The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things 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, was nominated for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry.

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We meet via Zoom to discuss an aspect of writing to focus on for that session. Perhaps it's adding specific detail, or improving dialogue, or working with voice or point of view. We then write "together" (with our without cameras on). We can respond to a prompt or apply the concept to our works in progress. It could be fiction, non-fiction or poetry. We then gather again as a group to discuss the experience.

Mondays from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. via Zoom

October 17: Adding specific, concrete details
November 21: Working with dialogue
January 30: Serving the story
February 27: Filtering, adverbs and goal setting
March 27: Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
May 1: Voice
May 29: A microfiction challenge