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My first First Prize ever
A new story I wrote won first prize for fiction in The Malahat Review 2010 Open Season Awards. Thank you judges Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane. Here’s a link to the details.

June 2, 2010, 7 – 9 pm, Esquimalt Recreation Centre
I will speak to the Victoria Writers’ Society about character development and other topics. Visitors welcome.

Hear me read from Silent Girl without leaving your house
Look for the link in this blog post.

Silent Girl Among Top 10 Finalists for Ryga Award
Silent Girl is one of 10 books in the running for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. Here’s a link to the story as run by KISS fm in Vernon, BC.

Earlier appearances:
Victoria launch – May 9, 2008
Toronto – May 12 and 13, 2008
Calgary – May 29, 2008
UBC Book Fair – June 2, 2008
Victoria School of Writing - July 23, 2008
Rock of Pages, Victoria – August 16, 2008
Rahway, NJ – October 2, 2008. Here’s an article about this event in The Rahway Record.
Nanaimo — March 19, 2009
Camosun College, Victoria – October 27, 2009

The photo is of me signing a book at the Victoria launch.

Tricia Dower signing

from
the book

"No one gets murdered in this boring town," I said. The river never flooded, either; at least it hadn’t as long as I’d been alive. That I was forbidden to be there didn’t make sense. It wasn’t as if we were still at war with the Japanese and had to worry about them skulking up the river, signaling each other with jars of lightning bugs.

— Not Meant to Know

Notes and Events

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