5 writers make the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize shortlist
Read the five works contending for $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The winner will be announced on April 29, 2021.
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Posted: Apr 21, 2021 12:51 PM ET | Last Updated: April 22
From left: Corinna Chong, Brooks McMullin, Miranda Morris, Ben Pitfield and Saeed Teebi. The five writers are shortlisted for the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize.(See individual photos below for credit)
Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Colleen Milligan April 20, 2021 - 7:00 AM From gardening to cycling, Kelowna residents are trying all sorts of outdoor activities to stay busy amid the pandemic and that includes roller skating and inline skating. Kelowna residents Colleen Milligan and Tara Ricketts started teaching roller skating last year amid COVID-19. “Originally I’m a figure skater and growing up in Kelowna I skated at Mount Boucherie and Kelowna clubs and roller skated at the Boardwalk (a popular skating rink). As I kept skating and the Boardwalk disappeared, I lost roller skating for a while and then picked it up again about 12 years ago in connection with roller derby,” Milligan said.
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Okanagan tech pioneer featured in top immigrant book
When Raghwa Gopal graduated from the University of the South Pacific in Fiji in 1977 with a degree in computer science hardly anyone knew what computers were.
Taking a course that few recognized was one of Gopal s first courageous moves.
The next would be relocating to Kelowna in 1978 to start Vadium Software, the city s first high-tech company, which made financial and billing software for municipalities.
Gopal s brother already lived in Kelowna at the time and was working at RV manufacturer Vanguard.
This is the basis of Gopal s story, one of five by Canada s top immigrants, in a new book called The Courageous Move.
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