Join us on Thursday, April 19th for a celebration of up-and-coming local writers at the Black Bear Review launch party, featuring readings from the current issue and from this year’s winners of the Kootenay Literary Competition.
In the fall of 2017 the call went out inviting writers from the West and East Kootenay areas to submit work on the theme ORIGINS: WHO ARE WE? WHERE DID WE COME FROM? Categories were: · Adult Poetry · Adult Fiction · Personal Non-fiction · Newcomers Category (new to Canada) · Indigenous Writers Category ·
Adult Personal Non-Fiction – First Place I do not iron. My mother, however, approached this chore in a unique and careful way, which was startling in such a chaotic, tumbledown house of five children of all ages. She, who was usually so free in all things, had three strict rules. One: she always
Adult Personal Non-Fiction – Second Place It’s New Year’s Eve and I begin my annual ritual. I conceal my daddy’s shotgun between the mattress and box spring of my bed, and gather my tiny brother and young sister to curl up with me on the lumpy hiding place. I tell them stories about
Adult Fiction – Second Place Paul awoke at 2:49 am fresh from the dream; not a dream, the dream. The same dream that had struck every night since he and his wife, Karen, had opened their boutique hotel in the Slocan valley. In his dream, Paul had moved out of a house where he
Adult Fiction Submissions – First Place Well, I know which came first of course. Black Bart…wait, was it? I think so. The time frame is helter-skelter concerning my initial acquaintance with the divine Ms. van Hellemonde though. Curse her. Was it at the cafe outside the Gare du Nord on a crisply invigorating spring
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