Writing for Children Competition
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Longlist for 2021 Writing for Children Competition Shortlist to be announced in September, finalists and winners in October August 26, 2021: CANSCAIP congratulates the writers of the entries on the longlist of our 2021 Writing for Children Competition. More than 600 entries were received. The Writers' Union of Canada initiated the Writing for Children Competition in 1996, and CANSCAIP took it in 2014. The goal of the Competition is to discover, encourage, and promote emerging writers of children's literature. Feedback for every entry is a unique and valuable benefit for the writers entering the Competition—all the entries get evaluation comments from at least one round of reading. CANSCAIP Members volunteer as first-round readers or second-round readers, and evaluate entries in the categories of their published books—for example, picture book authors evaluate the picture book entries. The feedback of the readers will be sent to all the writers in November. As a group, the Competition's first-round readers evaluated all the entries and selected those that proceeded to the second round. The second-round readers evaluated those entries and selected the longlist. This year, another round of evaluation has been added to produce a shortlist: a group of readers will be evaluating the longlist and selecting the entries for the shortlist, which will be announced in September. The entries on the shortlist will then proceed to the juries, and the finalists and winners will be announced in October. CANSCAIP is very grateful to the Members who volunteered as the 2021 readers; many have also volunteered in previous years: Lana Button, Kathy Clark, Lena Coakley, Lisa Dalrymple, Kathryn Ellis, Heather Gale, Loretta Garbutt, Linda Granfield, Theo Heras, Alison Lohans, Carol L. MacKay, Patsy MacKinnon, Ishta Mercurio, Mireille Messier, Jean Mills, Jennifer Mook-Sang, Monica Nawrocki, Colleen Nelson, Heather O’Connor, Deb Patz, Karen J. Rankin, Aimee Reid, Gillian Richardson, Raquel Rivera, Judy Ann Sadler, Jocelyn Shipley, Margaret Springer, and Susan White. We are grateful also to Member Jean Pendziwol for volunteering to manage and organize the 600+ entries and allocate them to the readers and juries. PICTURE BOOK LONGLIST Hassina Benchabane - The Cricket Game Lynda Benjamin - The Girl with the Rainbow Boots Leah Block - Runaway Rabbit Jane Blondie - No Bath for Charlie! Jenna Campbell - The Secret Ingredients Laura Clipsham - The Best Place Ever: Where Can it Be? Mike Cope - Stitch and Bewitch Laurie Crookell - Dragon Learns to Read + Dragon Wants to Read Jillian Dobson - Ishbel's Letters Jillian Dobson - Molly the Artist Jillian Dobson - The Microphone Thereza Dos Santos - Mr. Penguin Dana DuPerron - Garden Baby Jacki England - Evergreen Evermore Fiona Forster - Silence Kim Gogo-Melvin - Why Am I a Spider Monkey Neil and Ann Gray - Big Blue Tessa Greyling - A Tree Called Leaf Christine Henderson - Christmas on the Waves Linda Jonasson - The Hockey Stick Grace Kennedy - The Little Brown Bat Alice Klopstra - Twenty-Nine Wishbones Courtney Lakevold - Call Me Bison S. Robin Larin - Gilbert the Exceptional Goat Kalinda Link - The Mango Princess Carol Macpherson - Nana the Secret Superhero Susan Marcus - Lucca's First Fish Maureen Marovitch - Ilena Lives Here Maureen Marovitch - Queen and Fox Cutler Marta - Claire the Wiggly Worm Sofia Martimianakis - The Case of the Missing Eggs Sofia Martimianakis - The Little Lonely Wolf Margo McLoughlin - Cakes for All Occasions Sheryl Niebergall - In the Rain Karen O'Byrne - I Would Like to Be Richa Parashar - What's Your Name Story? Dianne Pede - A Space-A-Licious Mission Teja Rachamalla - When I Was Small Caterina Salvatori - Cora & Keiko Brian Slattery - Mister Mephisto's Midnight Ride Susan Smith - Saturdays with Grandma Suzanne Socken - Molly's First Snowman Suzanne Socken - Lola's Labelmaker Rosalyn Yake - Help Me Throw Starfish! CHAPTER BOOK LONGLIST Julie Kavanagh - Just What I Need Sara Jane Kehler - The Rocket Ship Dale Kerr - The Mysterious Toilet Rowena Mascarenhas - Cordelia Rhonda Verbicky - Patrick, Stop That Nonsense! Carmen Wittmeier - Jubilee and the Birthday Wizards Carmen Wittmeier - Jubilee and the Tooth Fairy Trap MIDDLE GRADE LONGLIST Trevor Copp - Carnival of Animals Emily Deibert - Bea Mullins Takes a Shot Loie Dunn - The Magical Confectioner Jackie Friedman Mighdoll - Oy Vey, Lily J. Ashliegh Gehl - Mostly Giant John Haines - Deotila and the Moon Lizard Wes Hubert - The Winter Rangers Karen Jones - The Real Dealio Geri Lalach - My Name is Rupert Glick Mary Pike - Tangly Secrets Bryan (B.L.) Smith - The Irritating Misadventures of Bert Mintenko James Steeves - Curse of the Noose Carol Teed - RX One Dog Sarah Van Goethem - Tilly Dewberry and the Very Dark Wood Rud Verhagen - Figure Skater Boy D.M. Wagner - My Brother, the Dragon YOUNG ADULT LONGLIST Elizabeth Chestney - Otherworld: The White Raven Nicola Dahlin - If We Tell You Melissa de Haan - Flying Too Close to the Sun Ashliegh Gehl - Blue Scott Lear - The Fighting Swan Donna Reid - The Starting Place (Ch. 13) Janette Shipston Chan - The False Son Bryan (B.L.) Smith - The Last Golden Light Susan Thomas - The Mortal Rent D.M. Wagner - Dirt Magic S. E. Wilson - Assumed Identity Karon Young - Storm Bringer Karon Young - The Wildwoods About the Writing for Children 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 readers are published CANSCAIP Members who volunteer for the Competition. 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. A goal of the Competition is to discover, encourage, and promote not-yet-published writers of children's literature across Canada. | SHORTLIST 2021 Shortlist for 2021 Writing for Children Competition Finalists and winners to be announced in OctoberSeptember 22, 2021: CANSCAIP congratulates the writers of entries on the 2021 Writing for Children Competition shortlist. Feedback for every entry is a unique benefit for the writers who enter the Competition—all entries get evaluation comments from at least one round of reading. The feedback will be sent to all the writers in November. CANSCAIP Members volunteer as the first-round readers, second-round readers or juries. More than 600 entries were received. As a group, first-round readers evaluated all the entries and selected those to proceed to second round. Second-round readers evaluated that smaller group of entries and selected the longlist. This year a shortlist stage was added, and a group of readers evaluated the longlisted entries and selected the shortlist. The entries on the shortlist are now being evaluated by juries who will select the finalists and winners. PICTURE BOOK SHORTLIST Jane Blondie - No Bath for Charlie! Jenna Campbell - The Secret Ingredients Jillian Dobson - Ishbel's Letters Jillian Dobson - Molly the Artist Jillian Dobson - The Microphone Neil and Ann Gray - Big Blue Christine Henderson - Christmas on the Waves Grace Kennedy - The Little Brown Bat Alice Klopstra – Twenty-Nine Wishbones Courtney Lakevold - Call Me Bison Susan Marcus - Lucca's First Fish Maureen Marovitch - Ilena Lives Here Sofia Martimianakis - The Case of the Missing Eggs Sofia Martimianakis - The Little Lonely Wolf Margo McLoughlin - Cakes for All Occasions Sheryl Niebergall - In the Rain Karen O'Byrne - I Would Like to Be Richa Parashar - What's Your Name Story? Brian Slattery - Mister Mephisto's Midnight Ride Suzanne Socken - Molly's First Snowman Suzanne Socken - Lola's Labelmaker CHAPTER BOOK SHORTLIST Dale Kerr - The Mysterious Toilet Rhonda Verbicky - Patrick, Stop That Nonsense! Carmen Wittmeier - Jubilee and the Birthday Wizards Carmen Wittmeier - Jubilee and the Tooth Fairy Trap MIDDLE GRADE SHORTLIST Karen Jones - The Real Dealio Geri Lalach - My Name is Rupert Glick Mary Pike - Tangly Secrets Carol Teed - RX One Dog Sarah Van Goethem - Tilly Dewberry and the Very Dark Wood Rud Verhagen - Figure Skater Boy
YOUNG ADULT SHORTLISTJolie Carey - EarWii6 Nicola Dahlin - If We Tell You Melissa de Haan - Flying Too Close to the Sun Ashliegh Gehl - Blue Donna Reid - The Starting Place (Ch. 13) D.M. Wagner - Dirt Magic S. E. Wilson - Assumed Identity Karon Young - Storm Bringer Karon Young - The Wildwoods A big thank you to the CANSCAIP Members who volunteered as readers and juries: Lana Button, Kathy Clark, Lena Coakley, Lisa Dalrymple, Kathryn Ellis, Sarah Ellis, Heather Gale, Loretta Garbutt, Linda Granfield, Theo Heras, Susan Hughes, Marthe Jocelyn, Alison Lohans, Carol L. MacKay, Patsy MacKinnon, Janet McNaughon, Ishta Mercurio, Mireille Messier, Jean Mills, Jennifer Mook-Sang, Monica Nawrocki, Colleen Nelson, Heather O’Connor, Deb Patz, Karen J. Rankin, Aimee Reid, Gillian Richardson, Raquel Rivera, Judy Ann Sadler, Jessica Scott Kerrin, Jocelyn Shipley, Margaret Springer, Kathy Stinson, and Susan White. And thank you to Jean Pendziwol who managed and allocated the entries to the readers and juries. CANSCAIP (Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers) was founded in 1977. We’re national, membership-based and volunteer-run, and we offer professional development opportunities for our community. The Writers' Union of Canada initiated the Writing for Children Competition in 1996, and CANSCAIP took it in 2014. The goal of the Competition is to discover, encourage, and promote emerging writers of children's literature.
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