Nanaimo fiction writers earn honours
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Updated: October 21, 2009 4:57 PM
Two Nanaimo writers claimed the top prize in literary contests.
Judith Millar won the 2009 John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award, which carries a prize purse of $2,000, for her short story about an insomniac.
The Insomniac is told from the perspective of the sleepless man’s 10-year-old niece. Millar expanded the story from an abbreviated version which earned first place in the Nanaimo Short Fiction Awards earlier this year. Millar, a former corporate communications manager, is a frequent presenter at Wordstorm and is working on a collection of short stories and a novel.
Gabriola novelist Roy Innes was also a finalist in this year’s Galbraith competition.
Galbraith was an economist and ambassador, as well as a prolific writer, penning more than four dozen books. He received the Order of Canada in 1997 and was twice awarded the American Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Adrienne Mercer claimed the top prize in the Victoria Writers Society’s annual awards for fiction for her short story Girl Next Door.
Millar also won an honourable mention in the poetry category for A Fisher’s Tale.
The awards for fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, recognize the best unpublished work from writers on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.
All winning entries are published in Island Writer Magazine.
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