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A great way to get young writers excited for the Calgary Stampede Centennial!This contest for youth celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Calgary Stampede by capturing its spirit in writing. This contest is open to students in Calgary schools, Grades 4-...
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Maryse Rouy (CAN), qui a enseigné de nombreuses années au primaire, se consacre maintenant à l'écriture. Elle a publié une vingtaine de romans historiques pour la jeunesse et les adultes. Le Moyen Âge a longtemps été s...
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cr: Lisa Barlow
Meg Wolitzer (USA) is the author of The Ten-Year Nap, The Position and The Wife. Her short fiction has been published in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. In her latest novel The Uncoupling...
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Anne Bernard-Lenoir (CAN) est une écrivaine née en France et vit au Québec. Elle est l’auteur de la série de romans Enigmae.com, largement imprégnée d’histoire et de sciences. enigmae.com est un site web créé par l...
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cr: Martine Doyon
Lucie Bergeron (CAN) est une auteure québécoise qui a écrit plus de trente romans jeunesse. Elle a à son palmarès près de mille-cinq-cents rencontres dans les écoles et bibliothèques du Canada. Ses ro...
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Hilary Leung (CAN) is a Toronto-based illustrator and co-creator of the Ninja Cowboy Bear collection. Originally a self-published picture book, the series gained a devoted fan base and is now being developed into an animated tel...
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David Bruins (CAN) is the author of the Ninja Cowboy Bear collection, co-created with illustrator and good friend Hilary Leung. The series follows three friends—Ninja, Cowboy and Bear—as they play together and learn about fr...
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Scott Chantler (CAN) is the acclaimed cartoonist of the graphic novels Two Generals, Northwest Passage and the Three Thieves series. His books have been nominated for the Eisner Prize, the Harvey Prize and the Russ Manning Most ...
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Margaret Pokiak-Fenton (CAN) was born on Holman Island in the Arctic Ocean while her nomadic family was en route to their winter hunting grounds on Banks Island. Being Inuvialuit, her childhood was filled with hunting trips by d...
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Christy Jordan-Fenton (CAN) is from rural Alberta and is the author of A Stranger At Home and Fatty Legs, which she co-wrote with her mother-in-law, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton. She is also a cowgirl poet and her works have appeared ...
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Arthur Slade (CAN) is the author of Dust, a national bestseller and winner of the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature. His novel Tribes was a Canadian Library Association Young Adult Honour Book and was nomina...
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Bryan Perro (CAN) is the acclaimed French-language author of the children's fantasy fiction series, Amos Daragon, a series of 12 novels that focus on the adventurous protagonist Amos Daragon. Francophone fans have already fall...
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Cathy Ostlere (CAN) is the author of Lost: A Memoir, shortlisted for the 2009 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, and playwright of Lost: A Memoir, presented by Theatre Calgary to rave reviews. Her creative non-fictio...
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John Marsden (AUS) is a writer, teacher and school principal. While working as a teacher, Marsden began writing for children, later publishing his first book So Much To Tell You. Since then, he has written or edited over 40 bo...
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Jacqueline Guest (CAN) is a Métis writer who lives in Alberta's Rocky Mountain foothills. An award-winning author of 16 novels, her fast-paced stories cover topics from deadly video games to helpful ghosts. She has been nominat...
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Arnold Henry (CAN) was born and raised in St. Lucia and now lives in Calgary. A difficult childhood drove Henry to pursue his basketball dreams and he is the only NCAA D-1 freshman basketball player from his island to receive a ...
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Tanya Davis (CAN) is a poet and singer-songwriter. She is a two-time winner of the CBC National Poetry Face-Off as well as the Canadian Winner of the 2008 Mountain Stage New Song Contest. She burst onto the music scene in 2006 a...
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Brenda Clark (CAN) is the well-known illustrator of the Franklin the Turtle series. Clark has illustrated more than 30 Franklin titles and numerous activity books for the series. Other popular titles she has illustrated include,...
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Marty Chan (CAN) is a young adult author, playwright, humorist and a former CBC radio writer. His plays and television shows have been produced around the world. Chan’s first children’s’ book, The Mystery of the Frozen Bra...
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Édith Bourget (CAN) est une écrivaine, peintre, voyageuse du monde et critique littéraire pour la revue Lurelu. Elle est l’auteure de dix livres jeunesse, dont les recueils de poèmes finalistes aux Prix littéraires du G...
