Deepam Wadds – writing with fire
- blogging about the challenges and delights of writing, editing, and publication
2012:
Whispered Words winners read at anthology launch
WCDR hosts June 5 book launch and readings at Azian in Ajax
Mark Tuesday, June 5 on your calendar. That’s the date we launch Whispered Words, an anthology of the best entries from our recent prose competition. The book launch takes place at Azian Cuisine in Ajax from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Several of the prizewinning writers will read their entries. Copies of the anthology will be on sale for $19.50 and many of the contributors will be on hand to chat with guests and sign books.
Whispered Words attracted 220 entries from across Canada and around the world. Contest organizers are delighted with the response: it has been one of the most successful contests WCDR has ever offered. We are already planning our 2012 contest, Amprosia. Guidelines for the 2012 contest are posted on the WCDR website.
Azian Restaurant is located in Ajax at 1995 Salem Road North at Taunton Road. Admission to the event is free. It includes appetizers and a cash bar.
If you’d like to attend, please RSVP by Friday, June 1 on the Whispered Words RSVP page. Space is limited and last year’s event was a sell-out.
Can’t attend but still want a copy of the book? Order your copy of Whispered Words on the WCDR website using PayPal. Copies can be picked up at the launch and at the June and July breakfast meetings, or mailed out ($2.50 postage.)
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April 14: received $500. WCDR scholarship grant toward completion of Four Winters in India
Interview with Dale Long from Inkstroke’s Blog: The Author’s Voice
March 17, 2012: “What’s Left” won first prize in Whispered Words Prose Competition.
Here’s what the judge of the contest, Antanas Sileika, had to say:
“This heartbreaking story of loss is written with restraint and intelligence and contains within it a kind of mathematical puzzle that one is tempted to decipher, although that may not be possible. Utterly devoid of sentimentality, the story invites the reader to put herself in the postilion of the narrator and imagine the strangeness of loss and character transformation that a physical affliction might cause.”
Interview with WCDR’s Heather O’Connor
What’s Left will be published in the Whispered Words Anthology to be launched by June, 2012
carte blanche requested from its contributors their 2011 reading favorites, making this the first time I’ve been quoted as an author.
Deepam Susan Wadds, author of Choose the Hammock
The stack beside my bed grows taller every week, which is my way of saying that most of the books I read this year were published long before 2011 or even 2010. For instance, I am in the process of reading Yann Martell’s Self, published several years ago.
Two more recent books stand out for me, however. One is Shadow Tag, by Louise Erdrich, a literary novel about a woman who keeps two notebooks: one for the prying eyes of her husband, the other just for herself. One of the aspects I found most intriguing about this book is that the reader does not know who the narrator is until the end. I loved the lush sensuous detail, the complexity of the characters, and the discomfort I felt at having such an intimate experience of how this alcoholic couple used one another. The other literary novel I enjoyed was Steven Heighton’s Every Lost Country. I got the sense that the author created these characters and then imagined the most dramatic and intense situation to put them in to see what they would do, and then followed them around. I admire his deft handling of character, landscape, sexual tension, and the political climate of Tibet and China.
2011:
- refinishing my first novel, The Cost of Weather
- work begun on second novel, Roadkill
- published short story, Choose the Hammock in carte blanche magazine
- 3 short pieces published in Being Unquiet, an anthology of work done with Pat Schneider
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- Vice President of
(Writers Community of Simcoe County) - writing a memoir of my time spent with the mystic Osho, Four Winters in India
HISTORICALLY SPEAKING
- works included in Poetry Toronto, Cross-Canada Writers’ Quarterly, Whitewall Review and bill bissett’s, end of the world speshul anthology
- Rebalancing massage practice since 1989
Contact: jalbun@sympatico.ca
