Askew’s Foods’ Word on the Lake Writing Contest is now open and will close at midnight on February 28, 2018.
Contestants may submit original unpublished works in the following categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. First place winners will receive a cash prize of $150 plus a 2018 conference package, Saturday Night Award Ceremony ticket, and be published in the Askews’ Foods’ Word on the Lake Anthology, which will be available at the festival and after the Festival through Bookingham Palace Books, Salmon Arm BC.
Winners will be contacted prior to Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival, May 11 – 13, 2018 at the Prestige Harbourfront Resort and Okanagan College in Salmon Arm, BC and will be recognized at the Saturday night festivities. For further details concerning the writing contest including submission guidelines, and information about the Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival go to wordonthelakewritersfestival.com.
Mary-Lou McCausland, Writing Contest Co-coordinator
778-489-3331
contest.saow@gmail.com
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A Note about Shuswap Association of Writers
The above media release announcing the Askews’ Foods Writing Contest which opened December 1, 2017 and which is a feature of this year’s Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival is a Shuswap Writers Association programme to encourage emerging writers. Would you kindly make this announcement available through your public service announcements, newsletter, postings or emails to whomever you think may wish to participate so that we may reach as many writers who may be interested as possible?
Celebrating its fifteenth year, Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival provides a three-day conference that attracts participants primarily from British Columbia and Alberta. We are fortunate to have bestselling authors such as
Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival is the major annual event of the Shuswap Association of Writers which is a BC registered Society based in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. Our mandate is to organize events to enrich the cultural life in our community and British Columbia, with a focus on the Written Arts.
Shuswap Association of Writers wishes to acknowledge the support of Askew’s Foods, who through their sponsorship, made this writing contest possible.
Thank you for helping us reach out to the writing community with this offer.
Kay Johnson
President,
Shuswap Association of Writers
250-832-3028
shuswapassociationofwriters.ca
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Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival (WOTL) May 11 – 13, 2018, Salmon Arm, BC.
WOTL is bringing back two all-time favourites: Arthur Black and Grant Lawrence of CBC fame and fortune.
Other award-winning authors confirmed for 2018: Sheri-D Wilson, C.C. Humphries, Jacqueline Guest, Ian Weir, Jack Whyte, and publisher Howard White (Harbour Publishing & Douglas & McIntyre).
As other presenters are added we’ll let you know.
Thanks,
Kay McCracken
Promotion Committee
Word on the Lake Writers Festival
Email: kaymcc1@shaw.ca
Phone: 1-250-832-6083
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