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October 31, 2020: CANSCAIP is delighted to announce the finalists and winners of their annual Writing for Children Competition. Each of the winners receives $500. The finalist and winning entries are sent to Annick Press, Kids Can Press and Scholastic Canada for their consideration. PICTURE BOOK WINNER: Natalka Roshak - How to Draw Everything Bunnies FINALIST: Jessica Lewinski - Wee Winnie Mae, the Dictionary Queen FINALIST: Lindsay Stubbs - Red Paper Kisses FINALIST: Sheryl Niebergall - Orange Truck, Blue Truck CHAPTER BOOK WINNER: Lisa Prine - The Wisdom of Wands and Wings FINALIST: VJ Hamilton - Rat to the Rescue FINALIST: Carmen Wittmeier - Jubilee in the Mirror FINALIST: Sarah Groundwater-Law - Shermop Bones and the Case of the Missing Bone MIDDLE GRADE WINNER: Brian Slattery - Escape FINALIST: Virginia Boudreau - Wings FINALIST: Geri Lalach - Caught FINALIST: Rud Verhagen - The Last of the Green Dragons YOUNG ADULT WINNER: Donna Hughes - Bright Shiny Things FINALIST: Karon Young - Daughters of Glaslyn FINALIST: Melissa de Haan - Nine Tenths FINALIST: Sally Basmajian – Impromptus The 2020 Writing for Children Competition received more than 600 entries. All the entries were evaluated by first-round readers who selected which entries would proceed to second-round readers. The second-round readers selected the longlist entries to proceed to the jury, and from the longlist the juries selected finalists and winners. In November 2020, all the writers who entered the 2020 Writing for Children Competition will receive evaluation comments for their entries. Reader feedback for each entry is a unique benefit for the writers--all the writers receive the written evaluation comments of the readers who evaluated their entries. The longlist entries and the entries of the finalists and winners also receive the evaluation comments of the juries. CANSCAIP is very grateful to all the CANSCAIP Members who volunteered to be first-round readers, second-round readers, and jury members for the 2020 Competition: Jo Ellen Bogart, Lana Button, Lena Coakley, Pam Edwards, Kathryn Ellis, Sarah Ellis, Loretta Garbutt, Linda Granfield, Theo Heras, Michelle Kadarusman, Jessica Scott Kerrin, Monica Kulling, Tanya Kyi, Marla Lesage, Alison Lohans, Carol L. MacKay, Patsy MacKinnon, Maureen McGowan, Janet McNaughton, Ishta Mercurio, Mireille Messier, Jean Mills, Jennifer Mook-Sang, Mahtab Narsimhan, Monica Nawrocki, Colleen Nelson, Deb Patz, Karen J. Rankin, Gillian Richardson, Marsha Skrypuch, Jocelyn Shipley, Margaret Springer, Kathy Stinson, Kevin Sylvester, Rebecca Upjohn, Vikki Van Sickle, Susan White, and Tim Wynne-Jones. The next Writing for Children Competition will open in March 2021. A goal of the Writing for Children Competition is to discover, encourage, and promote not-yet-published writers. The Writers' Union of Canada initiated the Competition in 1996, and CANSCAIP took it on in 2014. CANSCAIP, founded in 1977, is a national membership-based not-for-profit organization offering professional development opportunities for both published and unpublished children's authors and illustrators. www.canscaip.org About the CompetitionReader feedback for each entry is a unique and potentially very beneficial element for writers who enter CANSCAIP’s Writing for Children Competition. In November, all the writers will receive the evaluation comments of the readers who evaluated their entries. The Competition readers are published CANSCAIP Members who volunteered for the 2020 Competition: Lana Button, Lena Coakley, Pam Edwards, Kathryn Ellis, Loretta Garbutt, Linda Granfield, Theo Heras, Michelle Kadarusman, Monica Kulling, Tanya Kyi, Marla Lesage, Alison Lohans, Carol L. MacKay, Patsy MacKinnon, Maureen McGowan, Ishta Mercurio, Mireille Messier, Jean Mills, Jennifer Mook-Sang, Mahtab Narsimhan, Monica Nawrocki, Colleen Nelson, Deb Patz, Karen J. Rankin, Gillian Richardson, Jocelyn Shipley, Margaret Springer, Kevin Sylvester, Rebecca Upjohn, and Susan White. CANSCAIP is very grateful to these readers--many of them have volunteered as readers for several years. The Writers' Union of Canada initiated the Writing for Children Competition in 1996, and in 2014 CANSCAIP took on this initiative as a partnership with TWUC. A goal of the Competition is to discover, encourage, and promote not-yet-published writers of children's literature across Canada. CANSCAIP was founded in 1977. We’re a national membership-based, volunteer-run organization, offering opportunities for professional development with our community of Canadian authors and illustrators of children's books, and children’s performers. | CANSCAIP announces long list for 2020 Writing for Children CompetitionAugust 2020: CANSCAIP (Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers) is pleased to announce the long list for the 23rd annual Writing for Children Competition. More than 600 entries were received for the 2020 Competition--as always, the Picture Book category had the highest number of entries. The entries in all categories were evaluated by first-round readers who selected which entries would proceed to second-round readers. The second-round readers selected the entries that will now proceed to the juries: the long list. From the long list, the juries will select finalists and winners, to be announced in October. CANSCAIP congratulates all the writers whose entries were selected for the long list: CHAPTER BOOK MIDDLE GRADE PICTURE BOOK Emma Chen - Molly Misses Nainai YauMei Chiang - Flower (aka POWER) Girl and the HAIRY Beast YOUNG ADULT |