Sono Nis Press has published BC branch member Karen Autio‘s book, Sabotage. This final book in Karen’s historical fiction trilogy for young readers is an adventure tale based on real-life espionage, sabotage and internment in Canada during the First World War. Sabotage has been shortlisted for the 2014 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile or YA Crime Book and for the 2015 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award. For more information, visit Karen’s website.
Prairie Provinces branch member Astrid Blodgett has been shortlisted for the Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story at the 2014 Alberta Literary Awards. Her nomination is for “New Summer Dresses,” which was published in You Haven’t Changed A Bit (University of Alberta Press, 2013).
BC member Philip Sherwood was awarded the 2014 Arty Award for Outstanding Artist in the Literary Arts by the Abbotsford Arts Council. Philip is an Abbotsford-based writer, editor and personal historian. In 2013 he served as managing editor for the publication of Matsqui Sumas Abbotsford Pioneer Stories 1890–1950, a coffee table book of 199 stories of the region’s pioneers. Currently, he is collaborating with the Matsqui Sumas Abbotsford Museum to offer services to Abbotsford residents who want to tell their stories.
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