Over the summer, we on the Word Out team got to read some truly astounding writing, submitted to our Creative Writing Challenge. Some entries made us laugh out loud; some gave us pause. All were totally impressive however, and it was both a pleasure and a huge challenge to choose winners. At first, we were […]
Over the summer, we on the Word Out team got to read some truly astounding writing, submitted to our Creative Writing Challenge. Some entries made us laugh out loud; some gave us pause. All were totally impressive however, and it was both a pleasure and a huge challenge to choose winners. At first, we were […]
Over the summer, we on the Word Out team got to read some truly astounding writing, submitted to our Creative Writing Challenge. Some entries made us laugh out loud; some gave us pause. All were totally impressive however, and it was both a pleasure and a huge challenge to choose winners. At first, we were […]
We had lots of delicious entries for our final Win a Book contest, where we asked you to tell us about your favourite food description in a book. J.K. Rowling's writings of magical meals proved to be popular, and our winning entry from M.P. talked about some of their favourite discussions of dinner from the […]
There are some seriously talented and imaginative writers out there who participate in Word Out! We were blown away by all of your entries for the Use Your Paranormal Imagination Contest, where you were asked to describe a way for vampires to be created and killed. Choosing a winner was no easy task, but at […]
The Word Out Creative Writing Challenge is almost over! You've only until the 11:59 PM on Saturday August 25th to submit your entries! After that we'll be picking some winners to give a whole pile of awesome prizes to. So if you haven't entered yet, get your write on and submit a poem, short story, […]
Like SF? Take your pick with the 'S' (Science, Speculative, Sword & Sorcery, Scary, Superhero, Slipstream, Steampunk). As long as the 'F' stands for fiction, the Lillian H. Smith booksale has got it! And they're not just discarded library books either. Thanks to the generosity of countless donors, there are also have lots of unstamped […]
Some of my favourite books were written after the world ended. That is to say, I’m a huge fan Dystopic sci-fi, written about planets (often Earth) disfigured by some sort of calamity (usually the result of stupid, stupid humans) & struggling to regain some sort of balance. This particular stream of Science Fiction has gained […]
Don't forget! This Wednesday is your chance to comic it up with super-artist Kagan McLeod at the Parkdale Library. So bring your pencils and stop on by! Parkdale Branch (1303 Queen Street W.) Wednesday, August 22 4:00-5:30 pm
It's not clear how high Word Out writers fared on their final exams this year, but they certainly scored well on the wise-guy-o-meter! We had a whole pile of great wrong answers to funny questions in our "Canadian Most Humourous Wrong Question and Answer" contest. The winning entry goes to Gohar, for the Geography themed: […]