And the Winners are ....

We're pleased to announce the winners of our 2012  Writing Contest – “EARTH”

First Place: Clarissa P. Green, Vancouver, “Thaw”
Second Place: Lynne Burnett, West Vancouver, “On My Father Turning Eighty”
Third Place: Sharron Bertchilde, Nanaimo, “Baked Expectations”
Honourable Mention: Julia Van Gorder, Vancouver, “Early Autumn Storm”

Our judge, BC poet Peter Trower, was born in St. Leonard's on Sea, England in 1930. He came to Canada in 1940, worked for 22 years as a logger and has been writing professionally since 1971. He has many novels, poetry books and articles to his credit and was the subject of at least one CBC documentary

Congratulations also to our finalists:

Doris Andersen, SURREY........................ Reality Check

Keith Bramwell, VANCOUVER................. A Prodding Question

Lynne Burnett, WEST VANCOUVER ....... First, Old Lovers, In the Cathedral

Alvin G. Ens, ABBOTSFORD.................... Dirt Under My Fingernails

Sabrina Farminger, VANCOUVER........... The Measure of a Man

Clarissa P. Green, VANCOUVER ............ Lawn

Shelley Haggard, MISSION ..................... Topography of a Broken Mind

Ruth Hill, CHETWYND ............................ Ambulatory

Harvey Jenkins, NANAIMO..................... Fortune Cookie Poems

Ruth Kozak, VANCOUVER....................... A Visit to the Underworld

Shannon Linden, KELOWNA................... Kissing Dirt

Irene Livingston, VANCOUVER............... One Corner of this Splendid Earth

Maureen MacDonald, SURREY................ Untended Soil

Erin MacNair, NORTH VANCOUVER....... Earth Report, 2020/Translated by operative Serif 236

Helga Parekh, SURREY ........................... Call to Mind, Dear Crow

Nesta Primeau, SURREY ........................ The Good Earth

Dorothy Stott, GIBSONS ......................... Strange Elements of Nature, Cathedrals

Donna Terrill, NEW WESTMINSTER ...... Earth to Earth

Julia Van Gorder, VANCOUVER.............. The Battle for the Balcony, Bending Time

Caroline Wong, BURNABY....................... Earthbound, Yellow Earth

Winners and finalists will read from their work at our Spoken INK Awards Night on October 16. Everyone is cordially invited to attend.

Spoken INK

presents

The Burnaby Writers' Society Contest Awards Night
Thursday, October 16, 2012
7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
La Fontana Caffe
101-3701 East Hastings (at Boundary Road)
Burnaby B.C.
Open mic sign-up at 7:15 p.m.

Hear winners and finalists of our 2012 contest read their work

(Please note: there is no Spoken INK reading in September)