Kudos to Kristy, Dana, Norma, Aude, and Joan!

Kristy and Brian in Saskatoon at the Prairie Horizons Conference

Hi, Brian.

I'm very excited to share that Mortified was shortlisted for a Joan Betty Stuchner – Oy Vey! – Funniest Children's Book award! This award is given out every two years by the Vancouver Children's Literature Roundtable. Thank you so much for choosing Mortified as one of five finalists in the Chapter Books category!

Kristy Jackson

See all the nominations for both picture books and middle grade here.

Read more about Mortified here.

If you’re interested in writing for children or young people, join our weekly Kid Lit class this summer (see here) and/or sign up for our one-day “”Writing for Children and for Young Adults” workshop with guest speaker Katie Hearn of Annick Books (see here).

Norma

Hi, Brian.

My personal essay, “The Wedding Dishes” was published in the April issue of All Your Stories, a magazine based in the UK. I wrote it for one of your classes and your valuable feedback helped me fine-tune it. 

Thank you very much, as always!

Norma Gardner

https://normagardner.ca

Everyone’s invited to join a weekly Personal Stories class this summer. Details here.

 

Dana and Brian in Saskatoon at Prairie Horizons Conference

Hi, Brian.

It was so great to see you at the recent CANSCAIP Sask 2025 Prairie Horizons Conference in Saskatoon! It's hard to believe that just a few years ago, I was a student in your workshops, and now here I am, speaking at the conference and I have four published books! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your wisdom, guidance, and encouragement.

I urge all your students: never give up!

One of my books that is now out in the world is Animal Minds: What Are They Thinking? published by Orca Book Publishers. It's a middle grade nonfiction book, all about my area of study as a trained scientist: animal cognition, or how scientists study how animals think.

There is a free teachers' guide available for download on both Orca's website and my own. The book is now available at libraries and wherever books are sold. It was a hit with elementary school kids during my recent tour with the Canadian Children's Book Week--another dream come true.

Thank you again, and I hope to see you again soon!

Kind regards,

Dana

Dana L. Church, PhD (she/her)

Author of:

• The Honey Trap: How the Good Intentions of Urban Beekeepers Risk Ecological Disaster (Sutherland House, 2024) More here.
• The Monarch Effect: Surviving Poison, Predators, and People (Scholastic Focus, 2024) More here.
• Animal Minds: What Are They Thinking? (Orca Book Publishers, 2024) More here.
• The Beekeepers: How Humans Changed the World of Bumble Bees (Scholastic Focus, 2021) More here.

danachurchwriter.com

Bluesky: @danachurchwriter.bsky.social

Instagram: @danachurchwriter

Dear Brian,

Years and years ago, I attended some of your workshops and loved them! We used to follow quite a few yearly with my fellow writers in Guelph. I have just launched my own publishing company and I have a few "Calls for Contributions" to issue in both graphic nonfiction and children's picture books.

Thanks so much and have a great rest of the day,

Aude

Aude A. Gwendoline, PhD, Founder & Owner
Éditions zOleVara Books
16892477 Canada Inc.
508 Gladstone Avenue, Unit B
Ottawa, ON K1R 5P1 Canada

 

Hi, Brian.

Just wanted to let you know that my piece, “Crashpad,” workshopped in Wednesdays’ Intensive Writing class, was published in the print copy of the Nashwaak Review, Volume 52/53. 

Great suggestions from the workshop!

Joan MacIntosh 

For information on submitting to the Nashwaak Review (and a few other journals) see here.

For information on joining a weekly “Intensive Creative Writing” class this summer, see here.

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See all my upcoming weekly writing classes, one-day workshops, and four-day  retreats here. ~Brian

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