Kelowna writer wins Canada Writes short story contest
Okanagan College English professor Alix Hawley is the winner of the Canada Writes BloodLines short story contest for “Pig (for Oma),” a story based on her grandmother’s experiences in the Second World War.
“Sharp and fresh,” and “beautifully rendered, from the first sentence to the last,” according to contest judge and novelist Lawrence Hill, Hawley’s winning story garners her a $1,000 award from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Hawley entered the contest after learning stories had to include a true family anecdote, saying, “I immediately thought of my Oma, Gerarda Boerboom Bunyan, and her story of smuggling a pig in Nazi-occupied Holland.
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