Shaunt Basmajian Award

2009
UPDATE Wayne closed the SBA Award for more info email Wayne here.

2007-2008
After an unforseen delay, The Writers Resource Center & HMS Press
announce the publication of the 2007 Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award winner:

The Year We Quit Believing

by "Vicki Goodfellow Duke"

ISBN 978-1-55253-053-5 24 pages saddlestitch

$6 available at the Online Bookstore
http://www3.sympatico.ca/cpa

Wayne Ray
POB 340 Station B
London Ontario N6A 4W1

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The Canadian Poetry Association would like to announce the 2006 winner of the
Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award

"Kate Marshall Flaherty"
kkkkatie@the-wire.com

Kate Marshall Flaherty lives in Toronto with her husband and three children. She leads poetry sweatshop workshops, guides meditation and mindfulness retreats, and is a founding member of the Children's Peace Theatre Toronto. Kate Marshall Flaherty celebrated the launch of her first book, entitled Tilted Equilibrium, this May 2006, and launched her first CD, Deepening Stillness, in June.

More on Kate and her chapbook in the 2006 Poemata!

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1996 marked the inauguration of the Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award: an annual manuscript publication competition and award named in memory of one of the CPA's founding members, Shaunt Basmajian. The contest is open to members and non-members alike. List of previous winners is available.

We hope that this will encourage you to keep writing and keep submitting these fine manuscripts for publication to add to our Canadian Literary Heritage.

Wayne Ray