The Shuswap Association of Writers announces the winners of the Askew’s Foods’ Word on the Lake Writing Contest:
For poetry: Caroline Miege from Tappen, placed first. Patricia Smekal from Nanoose Bay, received an honourable mention.
For fiction: Katie Marti from Revelstoke, placed first. Shawn L. Bird from Salmon Arm received an honourable mention.
For non-fiction: Cathy MacLean from Gibsons, placed first. Barclay Alldred from Salmon Arm received an honourable mention.
In the Writing for Young People category: Katie Marti from Revelstoke, placed first and Ellen G. Davies from Nanaimo, received an Honourable Mention.
First-place winners receive $150 plus a full Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival package. Honourable mention winners receive a $50 plus a ticket to the Saturday Night Gala Banquet where the awards will be presented.
The writing contest is part of the Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival at the Prestige Harbourfront Resort and Okanagan College, May 15 to 17. Conference packages are still available.
There are two public events – a coffeehouse Friday, May 15 and the May 16 banquet.
The Shuswap Association of Writers thanks judges Jodie Renner, Deanna Kawatski, Duncan Lowe, Peter Budda and Shelley Corbin and sponsor Askew’s Foods.
