The Winter Words Writing contest submission deadline has passed.
This year we are excited to announce that BC author Karen Lee White will be judging this year’s writing competition. Karen Lee White is a Northern Salish, Tuscarora, Chippewa, and Scots writer from Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Adopted into the Daklaweidi Wolf Clan of the Interior Tlingit/Tagish, people on whose lands the heart of Bonewalker unfolds, Karen’s first novel, The Silence (2018 Exile Editions), went into a second printing within weeks of release. In 2018, Karen was commissioned by the Banff Centre for Fables for the 21st Century, and in 2017 she was awarded the Indigenous Art Award for Writing by the Hnatyshyn Foundation. Her work has been featured in various literary journals and anthologies, and she is also a playwright, having been commissioned by theatres in Vancouver and Victoria.