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Editorial Comment Highlights
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| For the last several years,
the editors have searched for an appropriate
sponsor for the magazine's annual writing contest,
a business or organization whose itnerests
included both literature and the community.
Abebooks.com kindly listened to our proposal,
and after hearing about our fourteen years
as a voice for fledgling authors, they kindly
agreed to provide the funds necessary to promote
the contest across Canada and to furnish the
winners with some very generous prizes. |
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Our first writing contest
appeared ten years ago, and the ritual has
taken place, with one or two exceptions and
delays, every year since. The submissions
are judged blind by writers who are not affiliated
with the magazine, and whose impartiality
is beyond doubt. We were fortunate for this
year's contest to engage the sharp eyes of
Sara Cassidy and Linda Rogers for the fiction
component, and Wendy Morton and Jay Ruzesky
for the poetry.
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In addition to the winning poems and stories,
there are works by writers from such geographically
diverse places and Ohio, Ontario, Alberta
and Kansas. There are sestinas and glosas,
and there is much wisdom, too. Meredith Lewis
writes of a mother who had always wanted
a girl: "What she hadn't realized," Lewis
writes, "and wouldn't every really come
to admit, is that she didn't want one of
her own." This is a line any writer
would be proud to write, young or old, because
it is an observation as true as the earth
beneath our feet.
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