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Aram's Choice has been nominated for the Silver Birch Award!

Here's a blurb about the reading program:

The Ontario Library Association Silver Birch Award™ reading program, now in its fourteenth year, is created and promoted to students and readers ages 8 to 11 in Grades 3 to 6. The number of participants over the last few years has been outstanding. Last year, over 200,000 students in 1000+ school and public libraries across Ontario participated in the Forest of Reading Award® Programs.

Posted by Marsha Skrypuch at 10:50 PM | Permalink | Comments

Okay -- I took the plunge. I'm starting to enjoy communicating and catching up with the antics of my fellow and sister bloggers -- and so I've opened one of my own. You can catch my latest writing-related thoughts at http://kcdyer.blogspot.com

Marsha, Linda and Kate -- why not post your blog addresses here, too?

~karen


OK, Karen. my blog can be found at lindagerber.blogspot.com

--Linda

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Have spent the last month getting ready for the upcoming Surrey International Writers' Conference -- a big shiny spot in my yearly calendar. The conference takes place in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. It's great fun for all involved. Writers, editors and agents come from all over Canada, the US and Europe to help beginning writers find their way.

For the past several years, I have helped out the organizers by coordinating the contest. It's international in scope -- a lot of reading but so much fun to do! This year we had entries from as far away as Israel and Japan. For the first time this year, in addition to our Storyteller's Award for fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry categories, there is also a category called Writing for Young People. Winners will be announced at the conference on Friday night and will all be published in this year's Anthology.

I'm really looking forward to this year's line-up, though I am very sad that I won't get to see Linda G. and Marsha S. who have been a part of the conference in past years! More info can be found at www.siwc.ca

~kc dyer

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