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SUMMARY:LiterASIAN 2023
DESCRIPTION:Vancouver\, BC – LiterASIAN returns with established and emerging literary voices coming together for a month of commemoration\, celebration\, and conversation showcasing the resilience and growth of Asian Canadian voices in CanLit. With this year’s theme of Inclusion 2023\, the festival will be packed with events including book readings\, writing workshops\, panel discussions\, and an afternoon dimsum with the authors. Full events schedule available online at http://literasian.com \nThis year’s featured authors include 2021 Danuta Gleed Literary Award winner Jack Wang (We Two Alone); novelist and playwright Simon Johnston (House of Daughters); writer and teacher Gillian Sze (Quite Night Think); rising star David Ly (Dream of Me as Water); poet and writer Steffi Tad-y (From the Shoreline); and emerging talents Candie Tanaka (Baby Drag Queen) and Emi Sasagawa (Atomweight). Roy Kurita and Sharon Lee (Growing Up Nisei) relives memories of the Japanese Canadian internment during World War II; Winnie L. Cheung and Lee Mei-Fung (Childhood Lost) will share memories of life during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945); Tāriq Malik (Exit Wounds) will give his personal views on working across poetry\, fiction\, and visual arts; Hieu Pham-Fraser (The Little Girl) will present on children’s writing and its messages of anti-racism and inclusion and Historic Joy Kogawa House Writer-in-Residence David Mura (A Stranger’s Journey: Race\, Identity & Narrative Craft in Writing; The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself) – will lead a series of writing workshops on identity\, poetry\, fiction\, and memoir. \n“This is the only festival in Canada that highlights how the Pan-Asian literary voice has added to Canadian literary culture\,” says Festival Director Allan Cho. “This year’s festival features writers across Asian North America whose works confronts and challenges the invisibility of anti-Asian racism in the publishing and literary worlds.” \nLiterASIAN will take place in Vancouver’s historic Chinatown located on the unceded Coast Salish Territories of the Musqueam\, Tsleil Waututh\, and Squamish people. Events will be held at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden\, Foo Hung Curios at the Chinatown Storytelling Centre\, Centre A International Art Gallery\, Floata Seafood Restaurant\, and the Historic Joy Kogawa House. \nIn collaboration with Word Vancouver Literary Festival\, will host a special fundraiser event\, Wine and Words: Dimsum with the Authors\, featuring an afternoon of food and festivities with all of the featured writers. This fundraiser will include dim sum\, wine tastings\, author readings\, with live and silent auctions.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/literasian-2023-3/
LOCATION:Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Gardens\, 578 Carrall St.\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 5K2\, Canada
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asian Canadian Writers Workshop":MAILTO:allancho@asiancanadianwriters.ca
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SUMMARY:FESTIVAL: Word on the Lake Writers' Festival
DESCRIPTION:Sessions included both skill development workshops and open forums with presenters based on questions and answers in a relaxed and intimate setting. 20th Anniversary. Askew’s Writing Contest Awards
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/festival-word-on-the-lake-writers-festival/
LOCATION:Prestige Harbourfront Resort\, 251 Harbour Front Drive NE\, Salmon Arm\, BC\, V1E 2W7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Awards,Festival,Workshop
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SUMMARY:SCWES BOOK AWARDS FOR BC AUTHORS 2023: SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE
DESCRIPTION:New in 2023 is the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Book Awards offering prizes in fiction\, non-fiction and poetry in traditional and independent publishing streams. \nThere will be a first-prize winner in each category announced at the Annual Sunshine Coast Art & Words Festival. \n$100 will be awarded for the first-place winner as follows:\nTraditionally published books:\n– Fiction\n– Nonfiction\n– Poetry\nIndie published books (includes hybrid):\n– Fiction\n– Nonfiction\n– Poetry\nFor a total of six $100 awards. \nEach entry receives comments from a judge\, including areas of excellence and areas for improvement. \nEntries for the 2023 SCWES Awards will open March 1\, 2023. \nRULES \n\nBooks must be published between January 2021 and May 30\, 2023.\nBooks must be submitted in book form by midnight May 30\, 2023.\nSubmissions will be rated by a member of the judging committee.\nEntries with outstanding merit in each category will be shortlisted.\nThe shortlist will be announced July 1\, 2023.\n\nFinalist Selection \n\nAll shortlisted titles will be submitted to all judges and all entrants will be informed.\nAll entrants will receive judges’ comments of each title submitted.\nThree finalists will be selected in each category. Finalists will be announced August 1\, 2023.\n\nWinner’s Selection \n\nFinalists will be rated by two judges.\nWinning entries will be announced at the Annual Sunshine Coast Art & Words Festival\, August 17-20\, 2023.\nJudges may enter their book(s) in the contest but may not judge in the same category that their book(s) is entered in.\n\nPRIZES \nThe first-prize winners will receive cash prizes. \nAll entries will receive:\nComments from a member of the Selection Committee. \nShortlisted authors will receive:\nA certificate “Shortlisted for the SCWES Book Award 2023” or “Shortlisted for the SCWES Independent Book Award”\, as appropriate.\n100 stickers for the book’s cover.\nInclusion on the SCWES website with a link to the author’s or publisher’s website. \nFinalists receive:\nA certificate “Finalist for the SCWES Book Award 2023” or ”Finalist for the SCWES Independent Book Award 2023”\, as appropriate.\n100 stickers for the book’s cover.\nInclusion in a list in the Annual SCWES Art & Words Anthology.\nAn invitation to participate in a reading event during the Annual SCWES Art & Words Festival.\nPlacement in book sales area during the Festival.\nA comment from each of the two finalist judges\, if they are finalists. \nWinners receive:\nThe prizes above and one-year membership in SCWES. \nFEE\n$50 per fiction or non-fiction\, $20 or poetry book entry (etransfer to sunshinecoastwritersandeditors@gmail.com\, or cheque made payable to SCWES) \nThe Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society was founded in 2021 as a non-profit organization. Our group includes about 75 members living on the Sunshine Coast. SCWES promotes literary arts\, provides a forum for local writers to develop their craft within the community\, and sponsors events such as the Annual Art & Words Festival\, NaNoWriMo\, and 100 Years of Writers on the Sunshine Coast\, among others. \nSUBMISSIONS\nMail a copy of each book to: 787 Madison Place\, Gibsons\, BC V0N 1V1.\nCopies cannot be returned. \nEVALUATIONS\nSCWES judges rate all books and provide comments for the author. The cost is included in the submission fee.\nThe opinions and recommendations in the evaluations are those of SCWES judges and are solicited by the author having entered the contest.\nAll content of comments and ratings will not be disclosed without prior permission of the author.\nThe author may use judges’ comments given for both personal or promotional purposes. \nQuestions? Email sunshinecoastwritersandeditors@gmail.com
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/scwes-book-awards-for-bc-authors-2023-submissions-deadline/
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