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This article was published 13/05/2023 (1223 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The Manitoba Writers’ Guild celebrated the winners and honourable mentions in the first Dave Williamson National Short Story Competition May 11 in an event that also saw the launch of a chapbook featuring the top stories.
The winning writers were Bruce Cinnamon of Edmonton, who won first prize for Return to Chrysalis; Rowan McCandless of Winnipeg, whose story TEOTWAWKI earned second prize; and Gaylene Dutchyshen of Gilbert Plains, Man., who won third prize for her story Sketches.
Honourable mentions (in alphabetical order) went to C. Merle Klyne of Ashern, for Legend of the Magpie: An Original Métis Story; Sharon McInnes, of Cumberland, B.C., for The Red Head; Eleonore Schönmaier of Ketch Harbour, N.S., for The Other Side of the Map; and Thila Varghese of London, Ont., for On the Edge of My Couch.
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If all this talk of AI has you a little creeped out, bestselling U.S. science fiction author T.J. Klune may or may not have the book for you.
Klune visits McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location on Tuesday at 7 p.m. to launch In the Lives of Puppets (Tor Books), a novel described as “a Pinocchio in the end times” featuring a family of sorts consisting of three robots and a human faced with a deadly threat from human-hunting robots.
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More than 50 years after starting an environmental action club as a high school student, Winnipeg poet Ron Romanowski is inspired by the need to save the planet in his new collection, Heart Blooms from the Garden Poet: Flora Fauna Ecology Politics: New and Selected Poems (Augustine Hand Press).
He launches the poetry collection, his ninth, Wednesday at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location as part of the 2023 MayWorks Festival of Labour and the Arts.
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A 2019 trip to Europe gave Alberta writer Don Levers the chance to walk the beach where his father had landed on D-Day and prompted him to tell the stories of four men who landed on the beaches that day.
His book, Our Fathers’ Footsteps, is based on diaries, journals and letters of the four men — two of whom were Manitobans with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles. The book also has a section about Winnipeg’s legendary If Day, a simulated Nazi conquest of the city that was staged in February 1942 as a wartime awareness builder.
Levers will make a presentation about the book and its stories at the Harvey Smith Library (999 Sargent Ave.) on Wednesday starting at 6:30 p.m.
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Linwood Barclay, Maureen Jennings and Thomas King are among the finalists for the Crime Writers of Canada awards, along with unpublished Winnipeg novelist Joel Dedecky.
Barclay, nominated for Take Your Breath Away, is on the list for the Best Crime Novel award, along with Anthony Bidulka, for Going to Beautiful; Nicole Lundrigan, for An Unthinkable Thing; Catherine McKenzie, for Please Join Us; and Shelly Sanders, for Daughters of the Occupation.
Jennings’ Cold Snap is nominated for the Howard Engel Award for the best crime novel set in Canada, along with A. J. Devlin, for Five Moves of Doom; S.M. Freedman, for Blood Atonement; Joanne Jackson, for A Snake in the Raspberry Patch; and Amy Tector, for The Foulest Things.
King is nominated for the Whodunit Award for the best traditional mystery, for Deep House, along with Alice Bienia, for Knight in the Museum; Anne Emery, for Fenian Street; Mary Jane Maffini, for Death Plans a Perfect Trip; and Iona Whishaw, for Framed in Fire.
Nedecky is nominated for the Best Unpublished Manuscript prize for his first novel, The Broken Detective, for which he’s currently trying to find an agent or publisher.
Other awards include the Brass Knuckles Award for nonfiction, in which Rosemary Sullivan’s controversial The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation is nominated, along with Harley Rustad’s Lost in the Valley of Death.
Winners will be announced May 25. The full list of finalists is available at wfp.to/09x.
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