Shawna Lee's short story "Purple" has been selected for publication by The Poetry Institute of Canada.

The anthology "The Golden Road" will be a a fine quality soft cover volume of the best of today's short stories. It is scheduled for publication in January 2010.

"Purple" will now go forward into the final competition to be judged in winter 2009/2010.

"Purple" is a humorous story based on an actual conversation Shawna Lee had while working as an ESL Teacher in China. She had left her purple wallet at the school. In order to ensure her wallet was actually at the school, she had to explain to the chinese teacher what purple looked like. Purple was one of the colours the chinese teacher didn't know.

"Purple" is a charming story not only about the colour purple, but about the joys and the frustrations of communicating through language barriers.

"The Flowery Rain" has been selected for publication by The Poetry Institute of Canada.

"Whispers on the Wind" will be a fine quality, hardbound deluxe volume of the best of today's poetry. It is scheduled to be published in January 2010.
"The Flowery Rain" will now go forward into the final competition to be judged in winter 2010.


Excerpt from "The Flowery Rain":

"I picked fresh new flowers
braided them through my hair
I started humming songs
forgetting that life's unfair"

To read poem and others, please visit www.scribblesandrhymes.blogspot.com

'The Walrus Collection' as a part of "The Arctic Series"


3 news paintings from The Walrus Collection on display in

The Junction Arts Festival
September 9-13, 2009

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