My story Casualties is on PRISM International’s short fiction shortlist. I am so honoured! I happen to know that it has not won (no official announcement yet), but I’m thrilled to have made it on to the shortlist. Looking forwards to reading the winning stories!
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1st Runner-Up in PRISM International Non-Fiction Contest
I received some good news in my email the other day. Missing in Action is the 1st runner up in PRISM International Non-Fiction Contest, and is going to be published in PRISM 49.3, due out in mid April. This was a great surprise, since I wasn’t sure if I was going to send this one to the contest at all! I’m so looking forward to read the other winning stories!
Two Stories on the Shortlist for PRISM International Non-Fiction Contest!
I am honoured and thrilled to have two of my pieces shortlisted for PRISM International’s Non-Fiction Contest. Both stories, Simple Recipes and Missing in Action are a part of my non-fiction manuscript, You and What Army. The winners will be announced in February.
You and What Army Shortlisted to the 1st Book Competition
My unpublished non-fiction manuscript, You and What Army and Other True Stories made it into the 1st Book Competition shortlist, a contest sponsored by SFU’s Writer’s Studio and Anvil Press! The winning three manuscripts (one in each genre) will go on to be published by Anvil Press in 2011.
Read My Story In Event Magazine
The newest issue of Event is finally out, where you can read my award winning story “Victim.” The magazine is available in bookstores, or you can purchase or read a preview of their digital edition. It’s a great issue and you should buy it! The other two winning entries are “Alphabet Autobiografica”by Eufemia Fantetti, a fabulous writer and one of my closest friends. (In fact, she’s the nameless ‘friend’ I refer to in ‘Victim’…) and “Asleep at the Wheel” by Katherine Fawcett. This year’s judge was John Burns, former editor of the Georgia Straight. In his judge’s essay he writes: “In “Victim”, author Ayelet…
Gurjinder Basran: Winner of the Great BC Novel Contest
My friend Gurjinder Basran, a fellow Writer’s Studio graduate, wrote a beautiful first novel about a young second-generation Punjabi girl growing up in BC. The novel was shortlisted for Amazon.com’s 2008 search for the Next Breakthrough Novel and earned her a place in the Vancouver Sun’s annual speculative arts and culture article, “Ones To Watch”. I read an earlier version of the novel and loved it. I think we could use more second-generation narratives in Canadian literature. A few months ago I read about a Mother Tongue Publishing Search for the Great BC Novel Contest, and e-mailed Gurjinder the link. I…