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Member Achievements
Each month PWAC promotes the professional achievements of its members.
Chuck Brown
Chapter: South West New Brunswick
Type of Achievement: Award
Date: April 2011
Chuck won the Ontario Newspaper Association Award for humour writing for his weekly column in the Guelph Mercury. Chuck's column also appears in the Waterloo Region Record. Chuck has been a finalist for four straight years, winning twice. ONA judge Vinay Menon, a Toronto Star columnist, called Brown "a great humour writer."
L. D. Cross
Chapter: Ottawa
Type of Achievement: Award
Date: June 2011
Cross received the Ontario Historical Society's inaugural Huguenot Society of Canada Award honouring "the best book published in Ontario in the past three years which has brought public awareness to the principles of freedom of conscience and freedom of thought" for her book The Underground Railroad: The Long Journey to Freedom to Canada.
Ben Benedict
Chapter: London & Southwestern Ontario
Type of Achievement: Funding Grant to Develop Word Festival for London, Ontario
Date: June 2011
PWAC London has received a Creative City Fund Grant from the City of London to develop a "Word Fest" that will collaborate with other professional writing and communications groups within London and area with a focus on professional development, promotion and improved inter-agency communications.
Gordon Graham
Chapter: Ontario Outliers
Type of Achievement: Grant
Date: May 2011
Gordon received a juried Works-in-Progress grant from the Ontario Arts Council to help compete a novel set in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto. With a working title of "King and Queen" this literary mystery pits a burned-out journalist against a corrupt real estate developer.
Terri Perrin
Chapter: Victoria
Type of Achievement: Award
Date: January 2011
Terri was recognized by the Comox Valley Home-Based Business Association for its 2011 Business of the Year for her business, Fine Art of Intention Feng Shui, and efforts to promote her first feng shui book: The Complete Guide to Feng Shui Crystals, published in January 2011.
Book now available on Amazon.ca.
Sandra Phinney
Chapter: Atlantic-at-Large
Type of Achievement: Award
Date: May 2011
Sandra received a Gold award at the Atlantic Journalism Awards held in Halifax, NS. Her story "Only in Punbico" (Saltscapes Magazine) won gold for best magazine profile.
Steve Pitt
Chapter: Ontario Outliers
Type of Achievement: Books
Date: June & September 2011
Steve's eighth book, Running to Extremes: Ray Zahab's Amazing Ultramarathon Journey, will be released this September by the Penguin Group. This non-fiction book for YA readers is a biography of one of the world's most accomplished (some would say crazy) extreme athletes, Ray Zahab. Steve's book will be co-launched with Just Deserts, a YA novel by Eric Walters. In addition, Steve recycled some of his trademark PWAC listserve blatherings into two original stories for the anthology Prose To Go. The stories, one about haunting a cherry tree and the other about being a geographically challenged parent, are part of a wonderfully diverse collection of personal essays by 18 writers, many of them PWAC members. Despite Steve's contributions, the anthology has been well received by reviewers and is published by Bridgeross Communications.
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My PWAC membership gives me credibility with editors and employers, assuring them that I am a professional writer who gets the job done.
PWAC Member
Jean Mills, Guelph Chapter |
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