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| Two former contributors to this magazine have certainly "done us proud" in recent days. In the most recent CBC Literary competition, the winners of both the Creative Non-Fiction Category and the Fiction Category published their first work between these pages. |
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In issue #6, from 1994, Sarah de Leeuw published a poem called "Female Gametophyte Development and Fertilization," and, in her biography, she says that "she is hard to reach by phone." With the recent win for her essay "Columbus Burning," I imagine she has made herself a little more accessible, particularly to publishers and agents. She is also teh author of Unmarked: Landscapes along Highway 16, a collection of creative non-fiction essays exploring the geographies of her home.
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Claire Battershill, the winner in the fiction category, appears in four issues, from Spring, 2003, to Fall, 2004, and, in her post-secondary career, she has finished an undergraduate degree in English literature at Oxford, embarked on her PhD at the University of Toronto and worked as Margaret Atwood's research assistant on her recent collection of Massey Lectures. |
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| We are proud to be able to say of these two successful artists that we recognized their talents at the beginning of their careers. Undoubtedly, they would have done equally well without our help, but we like to imagine that our cheers helped them along their way. Their success leads us to wonder which future award winners lurk between the pages of this issue. Our advice is to read it and make your own predictions. |
