Kudos to everyone who made the short list for the CANSCAIP Writing for Children Competition!

The Canadian Society for Children's Authors Illustrator and Performers {CANSCAIP} has just announced the shortlist 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, Catherine McKenzie, Christine Michaud (who has two books on the short list!), and Penny Thompson.

And in the Picture Book division: Beth Elliott, and Pawan Kaur Singh.

Plus, I recognize 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

CANSCAIP offers this competition for would-be authors of picture books, middle grade, and young adult novels each year. 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

Children's author Erin Silver
will be one of the guest speakers
for our weekly Kid Lit class. See here.

P.S. There’s still space in the Writing for Children and for Young Adults workshop,  starting with literary agent Eve Adler of Red Fox Literary, Saturday, October 28 (see here).

Here’s the full short list for the CANSCAIP competition:

PICTURE BOOKS

Underground Symphony – Rita Bates

Ninang's Here – Analene Belanger

Can We Be Friends? – Donna Chastko

Hide-and-Go-Sheep – Susanne Connolly

Not a Book – Tanya Elchuk

The King's Court – Beth Elliott

Don't Mind if I Do – Cynthia Ford

Finding Footprints – Jody Jones

Carols for Mansi – Pawan Kaur Singh

I Remember for Her – Sarah Ker-Hornell

Stay Away from This Book – Eva Klassen

The Journey Home – Christine J. Lee

The Mango Princess – Kalinda Link

Nadia and Lili: The Brilliant Boulangers – Heather McLennan

One-Night Bike – Kamilla Milligan

Together Tea – Kamilla Milligan 

Orange Truck, Blue Truck – Sheryl Niebergall

Wildflower Waltz – Laura Polasek

Tameeka's Race – Michale Raske

Kimone's Music – Sashoya Simpson

The Instrument Maker – Sashoya Simpson

 

Children's author Lana Button will be
one of the guest speakers for our
weekly Kid Lit class. See here.

MIDDLE GRADE

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

Riches – Penny Thompson

 

YOUNG ADULT

Consumed – Elena Bentley

My Accidental Life – Simone Garneau

Hydra – Dallas Nicholls

Last and Only Chance – Rina Nichols

Dirt Magic – D.M. Wagner

The Deepers – Carmen Wittmeier

See Brian Henry’s upcoming weekly writing classes, one-day workshops, and weekend retreats here.