Writers

Monday April 15, 2013

How I started writing: Alice Petersen

The Quebec Writing Competition deadline is May 1st, 2013.  

 

The competition is run by the CBC in partnership with the Quebec Writers' Federation, and is open to unpublished short stories.

 

The winner receives a cash prize of $1500, as well as a broadcast of their story on Cinq à Six, and publication in Maisonneuve Magazine and in an anthology by Vehicule Press. 

To help give you some inspiration, from now until the deadline, each week we will bring you the story "the moment".

 

The moment when a now-established writer got that initial courage to put the pen to paper or to sit down at the computer, and start to write.

 

The moment when a person knows, without question, that they are meant to be a storyteller.

 

This week, Alice Petersen tells her story.

 

Alice Petersen, a citizen of Canada and New Zealand, has had stories shortlisted for the CBC Literary awards.

 

Her first collection, All the Voices Cry was recently awarded the Quebec Writers' Federation's Concordia University First Book Prize.

 

Alice Petersen lives in the woods near Shawinigan, Quebec, with her husband and two daughters.

 

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Monday April 8, 2013

How I started writing: Gillian Sze

The Quebec Writing Competition deadline is May 1st, 2013.  

 

The competition is run by the CBC in partnership with the Quebec Writers' Federation, and is open to unpublished short stories.

 

The winner receives a cash prize of $1500, as well as a broadcast of their story on Cinq à Six, and publication in Maisonneuve Magazine and in an anthology by Vehicule Press. 

To help give you some inspiration, from now until the deadline, each week we will bring you the story "the moment".

 

The moment when a now-established writer got that initial courage to put the pen to paper or to sit down at the computer, and start to write.

 

The moment when a person knows, without question, that they are meant to be a storyteller.

 

This week, we hear from Gillian Sze.

 

Gillian is the author of Fish Bones, a collection of poetry which was nominated for the QWF McAuslan Book Prize and longlisted for the ReLit Award for Poetry.

 

She is the winner of the University of Winnipeg's Writer's Circle Prize and the 2011 3Macs carte blanche Prize.  

 

She received an honourable mention in the 2008 Quebec Writing Competition.

 

Listen to Gillian Sze explain how she started writing:  

 

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Categories: Books, Writers

 

• April 2013
  • Mon., 15 – How I started writing: Alice Petersen
     
  • Mon., 8 – How I started writing: Gillian Sze
     
  • Mon., 8 – Editors tell stories from their 'hoods
     
  • Tue., 2 – How I started writing: Dimitri Nasrallah
     
• March 2013
  • Mon., 25 – Nouveau Projet celebrates first anniversary
     
  • Mon., 25 – How I started writing: Marie Hélène Poitras
     
  • Thu., 21 – What Nicolas Langelier is reading
     
• February 2013
  • Tue., 5 – Legendary Quebec director Denys Arcand releases his first novel
     
• January 2013
  • Tue., 8 – Quebec Writing Competition Winners
     
• December 2012
  • Mon., 31 – Growing up graphic
     
  • Sun., 23 – Graphic Chicken Soup for the Graphic Soul
     
  • Mon., 17 – French magazine dedicates an issue to les têtes carrées
     
• November 2012
  • Tue., 20 – Quebec Writing Competition Reader's Choice Award Winner
     
  • Fri., 9 – Quebec Writing Competition Reader's Choice Award
     
• October 2012
  • Mon., 29 – Quebec Writing Competition shortlist
     
• May 2012
  • Sat., 19 – Are all the artists red?
     
  • Fri., 11 – Is modern motherhood a new form of oppression?
     
• January 2012
  • Sat., 21 – Bridging the literary divide
     
  • Sat., 21 – For the love of translation
     
• December 2011
  • Sat., 31 – Quebec Writing Competition Winners
     
• October 2011
  • Sat., 22 – Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards
     
• September 2011
  • Sat., 24 – Art: What's the Point?
     
• June 2011
  • Fri., 24 – Stanley's Summer Reads
     
  • Fri., 24 – Can paper magazines survive?
     
  • Sat., 18 – Diatribes of a Dying Tribe
     
• May 2011
  • Sat., 21 – Culture Club + Guest DJ -- May 21, 2011
     
• April 2011
  • Sat., 16 – Big bucks for writers
     
• January 2011
  • Sat., 1 – Winning Words