GOOD NEWS!  
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July 2019
Shortlisted (Finalist)
Eden Mills Writers Festival - Literary Contest
Non-FIction
'Just a Cuppa Coffee'

​June 2019
WINNER - 1st Place
South Simcoe Arts Festival Adult Short Story Contest 
'Moonlight with Tom Thomson' was judged by Brian Henry.

WINNER - Phyllis Smallman Award for Great Writing
South Simcoe Arts Festival 2019

May 2019 Shortlisted (Finalist)
2019 NOWW International Writing Contest in the Creative Non-Fiction category. 
​My story, 'Just A Cuppa Coffee' was judged by author M.G. Vassanji. 

September 2018 
Winner - Eden Mills Writers Festival - Fringe Festival
'Fairy Castle in the West'

August 2018
Shortlisted  - CAA Banister Poetry Contest
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The hillside crowd gathered to hear author readings.

​Eden Mills Writers Festival. 
Winner - Fringe Festival
'Fairy Castle in the West'

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Eden Mills Writers Festival - September  9

                                  I was the Fringe Festival winner with 'Fairy Castle in the West' at the EMWF on September 9, 2018.                                                            
'Fairy Castle' is chapter 8 in       
Caught Between the Walls


Check it out at www.emwf.ca

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Upcoming Events

The Muskoka Novel Marathon
​in Huntsville
July 12 - 15 
72 hours to write a novel!  Can I do it? Gonna try...
This is a fundraiser for the Muskoka YMCA Literacy initiatives program.
I need your help! 
Please go to www.muskokanovelmarathon.com. 
​You can support me by clicking on Writers or Donations and pledge $ towards my efforts.   
This is a very worthy cause, and the winning novel will be sent to a Canadian Publisher for consideration.  

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'The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.'  Picasso

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