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Byline Volume 30 Number 4 Summer 2013 Vol 32:2 ISSN 1929-6193 IN THIS ISSUE President's Message – Dr. Qais Ghanem Many of you already know that the new board was elected at our AGM, on September 9, 2014. There was a relatively good attendance, which always makes ... More ... Canadian Authors Association 2015 Literary Awards Entries are now being accepted for CAA's 2015 Literary Awards. Entering its 40th year, the CAA Literary Awards program honours writing... More … 26th CAA-NCR Writing Contest 2013 – 1st Place Poetry Old Among Strangers – By Sylvia Adams Always the clamour of quiet from the house where you were born; syllables of memory throbbing with fears, recriminations, .... More .... 27th CAA-NCR Writing Contest 2014 – First Place – Short Story Category Life Expos-ed – by Arlene Smith Hot dog buns make excellent pillows. I learned that lesson from Shea Stadium, the Montreal Expos, and my daughter.... More ... What You Missed: Screenwriters's Workshop and CAA-NCR's Octoberber Meeting – Library & Archives – A resource for writers – by Debbie Rose The Screenwriter’s Toolbox workshop was a great success. Local screenwriter Jennifer Mulligan took participants through ... More .... 28th CAA-NCR Writing Contest - Guidelines for 2015 NCWC - By Sherrill Wark Open to members of CAA–NCR and/or residents of the National Capital Region ... More... There's GOTTA Be a Better Word Than GOT! – Emily-Jane Hills Orford Once you start to get a few things published you might be able to apply for various types of writing grants. Grants are available through... More ... CAA-NCR Program Information – 2014–2015 2014 Winter Social ... January Meeting "Writing Biographies and History" … April Workshop "Writing as a Spiritual Practice" More ... Critiquing on Steroids – a Barbara Kyle Master's Class – by Sharyn Heagle 2014 Winter Social ... January Meeting "Writing Biographies and History" ...April Workshop "Writing as a Spiritual Practice" More ... Byline November-December 2014 Page 1 President's Message Many of you already know that the new board was elected at our AGM, on September 9, 2014. There was a relatively good attendance, which always makes the executive feel that what they are doing is worthwhile. Since then, we have persuaded a couple of members to join our team to do all the work that needs to be done. The following now make up the team: Qais Ghanem (President) Sharyn Heagle (Past-past President) Arlene Smith (Treasurer) Jim Morin (VP - Membership) Gill Foss (Chapter Historian) Nerys Parry (VP - Youth Programs) Debbie Rose (VP - Programs) Catina Noble (Writing Circles Coord) Carol Stephen (Communication) Sherrill Wark (NCWC coordinator) However, we welcome the participation of volunteers, as well as any of their ideas to improve the function of this chapter. During that same AGM, we listened to Kevin Johns and Catherine Brunelle talking about their new initiative, Ottawa Writes. That was at our new meeting place, The McNabb Recreation Centre, 180 Percy, Ottawa K1R 6E5, Tel: (613) 564-1070. This was chosen because it is so central, and thus reachable by bus, and it has excellent parking space. I have not been able to personally attend the first two meetings of the chapter, because I was in Spain for the first one, and had to be at a Senate event for the second. But the October meeting was a presentation by Megan Butcher, Reference Librarian, Library & Archives Canada, while the November one was about making your book an e-book, by Tudor Robins. I was invited, as president of CAA-NCR, to attend the Ottawa Book Awards ceremony at the Shenkman Centre. This is an annual event which began in 1986 by City Hall. It took place on November 12, and was attended by about 100 people, including Mayor Watson who handed out the awards with his accustomed enthusiasm. The first prize was the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry. Three poets were in the short list. The winner was David O-Meara. The next category was English fiction, which included works of fiction, novels, short stories, children’s literature and poetry – quite a wide range. Again the winner was David O’Meara! I don’t know whether this has happened before, but I thought it was quite remarkable. For French fiction, there were three candidates, and the winner was Philippe Bernier Arcand. Byline November-December 2014 Page 2 The final, perhaps most exciting competition, was for English non-fiction. This was won by Paul West for his book “The Longer I’m Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006 –“ Another exciting development taking place as I write is launching a Face Book Group for CAA-NCR. This will be spearheaded by Carol Stephen. We will announce it ASAP, and hope that you will visit and “like” it, and post your thoughts. I’d like to acknowledge the work done for many years by Dorothee Komangapik, in mailing out timely notices of literary events, meticulously put together by another hard working volunteer, Carol Stephen. This part of the work will now be done using modern technology! You will be receiving regular messages from Mail Chimp. This system allows you to “opt out”, if you no longer wish to receive the notices. For the system to work properly, we need the first and family name of each recipient. After you receive the first announcement, please make sure that we have your full name. On a personal note, I am happy to announce that I will be receiving the Order of Ottawa Medal from Mayor Watson on 20 November, in recognition for my community work in the fields of peace, human rights, gender equality and diversity. I am proud that the citation published by the Mayor’s office mentions, among my achievements, being president of CAA-NCR! Finally, my wife and I will be hosting our CAA-NCR 2014 pot-luck Christmas party on 9 December from 5 to 9 pm. We hope that many members and non- members will join us. Those who confirm their attendance to the e-mail below, will receive our address and how to get there. Please feel free to contact me if you have any ideas or comments: [email protected] Dr. Qais Ghanem Back to top NOTICE TO THE READER Byline is looking for people to review CAA-NCR meetings and workshops, and write brief articles for publication in the magazine. If you plan to attend one of our upcoming workshops or meetings, and would like to see your name in print, contact the Byline editor, Sharyn Heagle, and let her know the event that interests you. Also, if you're very excited about a particular book you've read, and would like to review it for publication in Byline, let us know. Byline November-December 2014 Page 3 Canadian Authors Association 2015 Literary Awards Canadian Authors Association 2015 Literary Awards Entries are now being accepted for CAA's 2015 Literary Awards. Entering its 40th year, the CAA Literary Awards program honours writing that achieves excellence without sacrificing popular appeal. Past winners have included Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Leonard Cohen, Micheal Ondaatje, Carol Shields, Patrick DeWitt, Nino Ricci, Michael S. Cross, Don McKay, Charlotte Gray, Joseph Boyden and countless other literary stars - some relatively unknown at the time they received the award. Criteria and submission details are available online at www.canadianauthors.org. Complete the CAA 2015 Awards entry form online, print it and send it to us along with your submission and entry fee. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2015. For more information about past winners, shortlisted authors, and awards events, visit our awards page at: http://canadianauthors.org/national/caa-literary-awards/ Back to top Byline November-December 2014 Page 4 26th CAA-NCR National Capital Writing Contest 2013 FIRST PLACE – Poetry Category Old Among Strangers - By Sylvia Adams "It became my habit to visit troubled places to renew my sense of insecurity." Graham Greene, Ways of Escape Always the clamour of quiet from the house where you were born; syllables of memory throbbing with fears, recriminations, and the poem bleating softly, still learning the language. A maiden aunt of a house, dispensing poke-bonnet love, pale and earnest as a cold nipple. Here you grew in the darkness of questions you dared not ask. A house in your blood after all these years, sad rubber chicken of chronic childhood tucked away in a whatever-happened-to drawer with Doris Day, the Sons of the Pioneers, cool hands on the forehead, lavender sachets among the linens, lilacs beside the porch. In all your escapes into other worlds, the house hangs on, trying to hold its world in; antimacassars cling to the sofa, ivy scribbles the windows; the piano rhapsodizes dim-eyed photographs; tartan and paisley too old to quarrel slump on the sofa in loose-tongued truce; and nightly upstairs and down, your father's ghostly slippers whisper across the carpet; your mother's loneliness tugs at your sleeve as soon as you turn the doorknob. Nineteen years since he died and the house went silent. Longer still since you left, the questions never answered. White-haired, in her armchair, your mother without the lamp on, the cat in her lap in soundless soporifics, your father's Sunday hat on its hook above her coat Byline November-December 2014 Page 5 until the house escapes her, gives up its dusty spoils and she loses herself in overheated halls her wheels’ whisper matching the sighs of slippers while she suffocates in wool shawls, tissue-rustling coughs; watches brisk hands trade wilted summer stalks for pots of seasonless plastic. Your mother, old among strangers, like a child in a house that airs an unvoiced language, while you, citified and clichéd, still struggle in unmilked dreams, turn away from the mirror, try to recall the comfort of dark, inarticulate ghosts.
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