Both Caitlin Press and my editor have encouraged me to enter writing contests.
The Antigonish Review has a fiction and poetry contest that I submitted two stories too.
The first one, a 5000 word effort, is called 'Jerome's Child' and is adapted from a story called 'The Sourdough and the Carlyle' written back in 2011. That story and another called 'Golden Nugget Gloves' were to be included in the book of short stories called 'Talking at the Woodpile' but the publisher felt they didn't fit.
'Jerome's Child is about a fifty year old social worker, Teresa, working out of an offfice on Vancouver's east side skid row. She is divorced from a husband that broke her heart and dumped her for a younger women with transplants. She has an elderly client named Jerome whom she visits because he is house bound. Jerome tells her an interesting story of the love of his life a women called Sara. Jerome dies and leaves a note for Teresa to take to Sara on Vancouver Island. Teresa makes an interesting discovery in the process.
The other story is shorter, 1600 hundred words, and is called 'My Life in Grande Center'. It is adapted from a longer story called 'Golden Nugget Gloves'.
My Life in Grande Center is about a twelve year old boy whose father tries to teach him to box so he can protect himself in a rough and tumble school in northern Alberta. Charles is not a fighter and his father gives up trying to teach him although his younger sister loves to box. The father trains her.
Much to Charles distress a new teacher, Mr. Hermann who is a pugilist, comes to town and trains the gym class to box. Charles is teamed up with the school bully and Mr. Hermann refuses Charles request for a partner more his size. He then gets beaten pretty badly.
Charles' dad and sister come to his rescue. At one point Charles says, "It was disconcerting to have your sister as your school yard protection."
So i sent in the two stories along with an entry fee of $25.00 each. I will receive a free year of the Antigonish Review if I win or not.
Cheers, I hope you are all having a good day.
The Antigonish Review has a fiction and poetry contest that I submitted two stories too.
The first one, a 5000 word effort, is called 'Jerome's Child' and is adapted from a story called 'The Sourdough and the Carlyle' written back in 2011. That story and another called 'Golden Nugget Gloves' were to be included in the book of short stories called 'Talking at the Woodpile' but the publisher felt they didn't fit.
'Jerome's Child is about a fifty year old social worker, Teresa, working out of an offfice on Vancouver's east side skid row. She is divorced from a husband that broke her heart and dumped her for a younger women with transplants. She has an elderly client named Jerome whom she visits because he is house bound. Jerome tells her an interesting story of the love of his life a women called Sara. Jerome dies and leaves a note for Teresa to take to Sara on Vancouver Island. Teresa makes an interesting discovery in the process.
The other story is shorter, 1600 hundred words, and is called 'My Life in Grande Center'. It is adapted from a longer story called 'Golden Nugget Gloves'.
My Life in Grande Center is about a twelve year old boy whose father tries to teach him to box so he can protect himself in a rough and tumble school in northern Alberta. Charles is not a fighter and his father gives up trying to teach him although his younger sister loves to box. The father trains her.
Much to Charles distress a new teacher, Mr. Hermann who is a pugilist, comes to town and trains the gym class to box. Charles is teamed up with the school bully and Mr. Hermann refuses Charles request for a partner more his size. He then gets beaten pretty badly.
Charles' dad and sister come to his rescue. At one point Charles says, "It was disconcerting to have your sister as your school yard protection."
So i sent in the two stories along with an entry fee of $25.00 each. I will receive a free year of the Antigonish Review if I win or not.
Cheers, I hope you are all having a good day.