Word Pirates

Every so often my Mom, who is an artist, talks about entering art contests held by, say, the National Parks Foundation or California State Parks. They are what I call literal art contests. They don’t want imagery or symbolism or abstraction–they want pictures of the parks. Half Dome in spring or a deer grazing on the side of a mountain, that sort of thing.

From what I can tell, the CBC Literary Awards is the writing equivalent of those art contest. The Canadian award has a podcast of this year’s winners available online. I listened to the first place English winner, chosen from 5,000 original unpublished submissions. It’s very Canadian. There’s ice fishing, hockey players, pot smoke, etc.

But it’s a good story, to be sure. Give is a listen if you get some time. (via)

~ Joy