Each year the Canadian Society for Children's Authors Illustrator and Performers
{CANSCAIP} offers a competition for would-be authors of picture books, middle
grade, and young adult novels. This is a great opportunity, and thanks to the
wonderful efforts of numerous volunteers, the hundreds of entries, not only get
read, they get comments. CANSCAIP has just announced the longlist of potential
winners for the 2023 competition.
Congratulations to everyone, but special kudos to those of
you from my weekly classes. In the Middle Grade division: Beth Elliott,
Catherin McKenzie, Christine Michaud, Jane Parker, Penny Thompson, and Sally
Wylie; in Young Adult: Justine Howard; and in the Picture Book division:
Ann-Marie Duwyn Zylstra, Beth Elliott, and Pawan Kaur Singh.
Of course, I recognize many more names from one-day
workshops – congratulations to you all!
(And if you've been in my weekly classes and I've managed to
leave you off my list of congrats, please forgive me! I remember stories better
than names.) ~Brian
P.S. Join us for Writing for Children & for Young Adults, a workshop, with literary agent Eve Adler, Saturday, Sept 30 (see here). Plus, there’s still space for this September in Writing Kid Lit – The Next Level (see here), Writing Personal Stories and Other Nonfiction classes {see here}, and in the Tuesday evening Intensive Creative Writing class {see here}, or the Thursday afternoon Extreme Creative Writing class (see here), though the Wednesday, and Friday Intensive classes class are now waiting list only.
Here’s the full longlist for the CANSCAIP competition:
Lana Button is one of the children's authors who heroically lent her time to reading entries |
Picture Book Longlist
For the Love of Chouquettes – Jennifer Bartoli
Underground Symphony – Rita Bates
A Chipmunk Rescue – Rita Bates
Analene Belanger – Ninang's Here
Can We Be Friends? – Donna Chastko
Rosso! – Melina Ciaccia
Fox on The Farm – Susanne Connolly
Hide-and-Go-Sheep – Susanne Connolly
Little Dragon Wants to Read – Laurie Crookell
Bowie's Lost Temper – Kimberly Dunne-Robbins
Sticks – Ann-Marie Duwyn-Zylstra
Strike a Pose, Hognose – Ann-Marie Duwyn-Zylstra
Not a Book – Tanya Elchuk
The King's Court – Beth Elliott
Don't Mind if I Do – Cynthia Ford
Too Fast – Rachel Greening
The Flowers in the Outfield – Christine Henderson
Finding Footprints – Jody Jones
Carols for Mansi – Pawan Kaur Singh
I Remember for Her – Sarah Ker-Hornell
When Agny Went to School – Ken Kilback
Stay Away from This Book – Eva Klassen
Fox in a Box – Eva Klassen
Rrr-ip! – Dianne Koebel-Pede
Oriane – Denise Landry
A Beary Merry Music Lesson – Charmaine Langlois
The Journey Home – Christine J. Lee
From Seed to Dream – Jennifer Li
Planting a Dream – Jennifer Li
The Mango Princess – Kalinda Link
Squirrel Survives Autumn – Janna MacLean
Let's Blow This Popsicle Stand! – Janna MacLean
Christmas Tree Day – Craig Macnaughton
Find Lulah! – Jennifer McAfee
Nadia and Lili: The Brilliant Boulangers – Heather
McLennan
One-Night Bike – Kamilla Milligan
Together Tea – Kamilla Milligan
You're the Best, Uncle – Sambriddhi Nepal
Orange Truck, Blue Truck – Sheryl Niebergall
Green Garbage Truck – Andrew Osborne
I Wish Mommy Would Come Home – Latoya Patterson
Just One Rabbit – Lizabeth Pirstl
Wildflower Waltz – Laura Polasek
The Little Fish Who Lost Its Rock – J.W. Price
Tameeka's Race – Michale Raske
Moose Moves to the City – Lisa Robson
Wolf Moon – Soozi Schlanger
Kimone's Music – Sashoya Simpson
The Instrument Maker – Sashoya Simpson
Author Jennifer Mook-Sang heroically lent her time to reading entries |
Lester Paints the
Sky – James Steeves
Be Careful – Ann Thorsen
Hockey Nana – Tanya Trafford
Grandpa's Garage – Savannah Tries
Kyla Vieweger – Hello Garden
Charlie's Nose Knows – Natasha Wells
A Day at Ms. Carla's Hair Studio – Charmaine Wright
The Sad Dog – Gwen Yoshiki
Middle
Grade Longlist
On the Same Boat –
Christine Chang-Gardecki
Professional Pirate – Beth Elliott
The Time Eater – Andy Haynes
Aliens, and Other Teenage Troubles – Margaret Lafreniere
Kiko and the Dream Eater – Shawne Yukimi MacIntyre
A Drop in the Ocean – Catherine McKenzie
The Secrets of Spondulick Manor – Christine Michaud
Divinely Human – Christine Michaud
Death Wears a Ponytail – Jane Parker
Riches – Penny Thompson
The Mission – Sally Wylie
Sharon McKay was another member of the heroic army or authors who lent their time to reading contest entries |
Young Adult
Longlist
The Olympians – Miriam
Benarroch-Altman
Consumed – Elena Bentley
My Accidental Life – Simone Garneau
North on Bay – Justine Howard
Hydra – Dallas Nicholls
Last and Only Chance – Rina Nichols
Dirt Magic – D.M. Wagner
The Deepers – Carmen Wittmeier
Our deepest
appreciation to the CANSCAIP Members volunteered as readers for the competition:
Evangelene Alaraj, Karen Autio, Jen Bailey, Lea Beddia, Dorothy Bentley, Louise Bradford, Lana Button, Jodi Carmichael, Tziporah Cohen, Peggy Collins, Anne Dublin, Heather Gale, Loretta Garbutt, Joyce Grant, Stella Partheniou Grasso, Jennifer Harris, Theo Heras, Etta Kaner, Shachi Kaushik, Tanya Kyi, Ilima Loomis, Carol MacKay, Jennifer Maruno, Patricia McCowan, Jennifer McGrath, Sharon McKay, Gina McMurchy-Barber, Jean Mills, Jennifer Mook-Sang, Melanie Mosher, Monica Nawrocki, Heather O'Connor, Deborah Patz, Jeff Pinkney, Karen Rankin, Aimee Reid, Anne Renaud, Gillian Richardson, Raquel Rivera, Judy-Ann Sadler, Lana Shupe, Karen Spafford-Fitz, Kevin Sylvester, Linda Trinh, Chieri Uegaki, Jane Warren, Christine Welldon, Susan White.
Volunteers Joanne Levy and Jean E.
Pendziwol manage the logistics of tracking and allocating entries to readers.
See Brian Henry’s upcoming weekly writing classes, one-day workshops, and weekend retreats here.
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