ISBN: 978-0-9813640-5-6

Page Count: 196

Price: $18.95

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About Freshwater Pearls:

2011 marks the 30th Anniversary of the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society. To celebrate this milestone AWCS and Recliner Books (www.reclinerbooks.com) put together an anthology showcasing the writing talents of our members, past and present, and all those that have contributed in some way to the success of the organization, be it, past or current instructors, volunteers, or writers in residence.

Submissions closed December 15, 2010 and the response was overwhelming. In January 2011, the anthology committee began the task of reading all the submissions. Joan Shillington and Bob Stallworthy graciously read all the poetry submissions and chose 21 poems for inclusion.

Shirley Black, Ellen Kelly, Betty Jane Hegerat, Inge Trueman, Robin van Eck, Barb Howard and Bob Laws took on the fiction and creative non-fiction submissions.

We are so pleased with the quality of work that was produced and submitted, and it saddened us that due to space constraints we were only able to accept 21 prose pieces for inclusion.

As an addition, we decided to create a Freshwater Pearls Online supplement in which we will feature additional pieces leading up to the launch of the Freshwater Pearls Anthology.

Thanks again to everyone that submitted and congratulations to the contributors.

Released September 2011

ANTHOLOGY CONTRIBUTORS:

CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Shirley Black
Joan Dixon
Wendy Flemons
Shaun Hunter
Ellen Kelly

POETRY
Richard C. Gorecki
Rosemary Greibel
Margaret Danford Hansen
Vivian Hansen
Frances Hern
Julie Lockhart
Micheline Maylor
Joanne Morcom
Dina O’Meara
Susan Plett
Hernan J. Restrepo
Lori D. Roadhouse
Shirley A. Serviss
Elena Truelove
Rosalee van Stelten

FICTION
Wade Bell
Susan Calder
Susan Carpenter
Jane Cawthorne
Lori Hahnel
Sarah Johnson
Fran Kimmel
Lee Kvern
Naomi K. Lewis
Marlene Mackie
Pat McAlister
Davis Neave
Kari Strutt
Inge Bremer-Trueman
Robin van Eck
Eloise Wall