Winter 2018 Contest: How I Choose to Hibernate Winner: Bury Me by Ariana Townsend:
The shortlisted authors are:
Ariana Townsend: Bury Me
Martha Warren: Wake Me
Edythe Anstey Hanen: Shelter Me
Bill Engleson: Winter Road Song
Coranne Creswell: Untethered
2018 BC Short
Short Story Contest
Winner: Chelsea Comeau
The short list is:
David Reichheld for “Let Morning Bring Me”
“Club Laundro”
Jeanine Manji for “Lucky Day”
KT Wagner for “Cabin Fever”
Chelsea Comeau for “Badlands”
Susan Smith-Josephy for “Daddy’s Game”
Derek Hanebury for “The Mercy of Saints”
Jim Bottomley for “Running with Salmon”
Sheila Thomas for “Rewind”
Glenn Mori for “One More Day”
Natalie Southworth for “Microburst”
Abhishek Manilal for “June 23, 2014”
2018 Literary Writes Poetry Contest
Winner: Barbara Black, from Victoria, with her poem “Child Bride, Hawkesbury, Ontario, 1918“.
Three honorable mentions–these are in no particular order:
“Waiting for the Ferry” – Derek Hanebury, Port Alberni
“Postcards from the Shadows” – Leanne Boschman, East Vancouver
“The Buck” — Susan Braley, Victoria
The Short List (no particular order)
Postcards From The Shadows, Leanne Boschman, East Vancouver
On Being Two Months Married, Charlene Kwiatkowski, Vancouver
Bee, Kelly Madden, Comox Valley
We Strive to Dismiss Their Prejudices, P. W. Bridgman, Vancouver
If You Think Of Death, Andrew Brown
The Buck, Susan Braley, Victoria
Child Bride, Hawkesbury, Ontario, Barbara Black, Victoria
Waiting For The Ferry, Derek Hanebury, Port Alberni
Summer Island, Judith Stouffer, Denman Island
As If Penelope, Michelle Brown, Victoria
2017 Summer Contest:
Winner of the 2017 Summer Contest: Nonetheless – Romney Grant! Congratulations!
Short List for the 2017 Summer Contest:
What a Croc! – P.C. Vandall
Nonetheless – Romney Grant
Evacuated – Vanessa Winn
It Won’t Last – Carol Garvin
Security Line – Anne Hopkinson
Slip Sliding Away – Neil McKinnon
Sole Survivor – Virginia McKinnon
Shoreline – Karin Hedetniemi
2017 Literary Writes Contest:
Winner: Postcards & Prose: Bench Canoes of the Salish Sea – Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki,
Winner: Creative Non-Fiction: Mr. JR Pickwell – Annie Siegel
Honorable Mention: Postcards & Prose: Wiley Ho – One Fifty