News from our Members
Novel and short story sales, readings and signings; our Toronto members' news page is updated constantly and gives us the opportunity to "brag" in cyberspace.
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Recent News
Gwynneth Heaton has been busy with signings for her book All about me, or is it I? Beware the wild pronoun! which is an amusing comprehensive reference book on pronouns for age 13 and above. The signings have been at the Rail's End Gallery in Haliburton, the Ambleside Bookstore and Canterbury Tales Bookstore in Vancouver, The World's Biggest Bookstore in Toronto. In Vancouver she was interviewed on Breakfast TV, and in Haliburton by Canoe FM. The website for her book for more information, or to order, is www.trafford.com/robots/06-2518.html.
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Rosanna Battigelli recently received her fourth Best Practice Award from the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association. In August 2006, she was awarded an Ontario Arts Council Writer's Works in Progress Grant of $12,000.00 for her second novel.
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Flavia Cosma attended Santa Fe Institute Residency for Writers from July 5 to July 30.
A Country of One, selected poems by Flavia Cosma, an E-Book, published by Brindin Press, England, September 2007.
Flavia's poetry has been published in various anthologies: Murmurs of Voices/ Murmure des voix/ Murmurul Vocilor, Cogito Publishing House, 2007; A Canadian Anthology of Poetry, Butterfly Thunder; A tri-annual publication of The Ontario Poetry Society, Verse Afire; Citadela, literary magazine, Satu-Mare, Romania; also a selection of poetry was published by Brindin.Com, England.
Istanbul Literary Review—September 2007, Poems by Flavia Cosma. And Rhodes or Rhodos or Rodi—Travel memoir by Flavia Cosma (Fragment).
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Jake Hogeterp has launched his proofreading and editing service, First Proof Editing Services. Go to firstproof.net for all the details.
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Bianca Lakoseljac's short story "Heads or Tails" has been chosen for publication in the upcoming anthology, Canadian Women Studies' special issue, Women Writing3: Journeys, by Inanna Publications and Education Inc., York University, slated for release in November, 2007.
Bianca's poem, "A Jewel on Air," has been published in the Fall issue of Verse Afire, by The Ontario Poetry Society.
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Carmen Ziolkowski and Norma West Linder were among those reading at the London launch of the Ontario Poetry Society's latest anthology, Butterfly Thunder, compiled and edited by Jeff Seffinga.
Norma also won an Honourable Mention for her poem "the Company of Women" in the 2007 poetry contest sponsored by Toward the Light, a new journal of reflective word and image.
Archived News
January 2007
Ben Antao has published his third novel The Tailor's Daughter, a story about a young Goan woman from Nairobi who goes to Goa to learn tailoring and her ambition and struggle to break out of the caste barrier.
November 2006
Anand Mahadevan has published his first novel The Strike, a story about a twelve-year-old boy and his family as he tries to make sense of his tumultuous world in 1980s south India.
July, 2006
Ben Antao's second novel called Penance, a love quadrangle, was published in Goa, India.
His debut novel Blood & Nemesis, about Goa's freedom struggle from the Portuguese rule, was published in 2005.
Goa A Rediscovery, a travelogue, was published in 2004.
Email if you're interested in buying a copy.
May, 2006
First Place in the Lichen 2005/2006 International Fiction Competition
J. Graham Ducker, author and poet, won first place in the Lichen 2005/2006 International Fiction Competition for his short story "Long Ago and Far Away." Another of his sci-fi story "What If" received honourable mention in the 4th annual writing contest sponsored by the Haliburton Highlands Writers' and Editors' Network and the Agnes Jamieson Gallery in Minden, Ont. Congratulations, Graham!
Oct. 21, 2005
John Jansen in de Wal's Picture Book Plays a Role Charity Event
John Jansen in de Wal's first picture book, entitled Go Billy! Go!, has been donated to the CHIRS Foundation for Brain Injury Rehabilitation. All proceeds fro this heartwarming story about a boy's adventure with his bubble gum will be donated directly to the foundation. Mr. Jansen in de Wal is a Toronto CAA member and the father of an individual with an acquired brain injury. Cost per book is $15 inclusive of taxes. To order one or more copies today, please call Donna at 416-240-8000 or e-mail your order to .
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Updated: October 23, 2007