Toronto branch member Dawn Hunter has won the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction for Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road, a book she wrote with Priscilla Galloway. Published by Annick Press, the book has been called a “wonderful resource for research and reports” for readers aged 10 and up. The Norma Fleck Award is administered annually by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre.
BC branch member Melva McLean recently won The Atlantis Award at the 2010 Moondance International Film Festival, held in Boulder, Colorado, for a screenplay she co-wrote with Bonnie Gibson. The screenplay, titled Dragonfly, is a family film about a young woman who breaks her grandmother, “Nan,” out of an old folks’ home and takes her on a nostalgic trip to see the opera house where she once sang.
Peter Midgley, Prairie Provinces branch member, has published a collection of poetry, perhaps i should / miskien moet ek. The poems, written in English and Afrikaans, deal with the experiences of immigration, living between borders and languages, and personal loss. Stan Chung writes in his introduction to the collection that “Midgley’s slender poems do not trumpet forth in predictable ways; instead, they move sideways across two continents, over decades of time, and through a rhythmic mélange of language.” The book can be ordered from the publishers at www.kalwriters.com/kalpress_books.html or directly from Peter at pmidgley@shaw.ca.
Carolyne Roy, Quebec/Atlantic Canada branch member, has just finished proofreading Entre bonheur et liberté – Commentaire sur l’éthique de Bentham, Mill et Kant. Written by Claude Veillette, this comprehensive overview designed for college students is published by Éditions CEC of Montreal.
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