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Pure Bliss!

By deb@rolledscroll | Published June 30, 2012

  PURE BLISS! (Photograph by Moussa Faddoul) * Here I am on June 13, 2012, in Mississauga, Ontario, as newly named recipient of The Grace Irwin Award (sort of “book of the year”), a $5,000 prize sponsored by The Word Guild for the top pick of work submitted to the Canadian Christian Writing Awards.  My novel, THE THIRD GRACE, is […]

Shortlist

By deb@rolledscroll | Published June 25, 2012

SHORTLIST The shortlist of competitors for the 2012 Grace Irwin Award *** Deb Elkink: The Third Grace Erin E. M. Hatton: Otherworld Greg Paul: Close Enough to Hear God Breathe Jayne E. Self: Murder at Hum Harbour Ann Voskamp: One Thousand Gifts * *

I won a 2012 writer’s award!

By deb@rolledscroll | Published June 19, 2012

AWARD   I just won a major writing award!   I’m elated and humbled. My novel, The Third Grace, was chosen as top pick across Canada of books written by Christians and published in 2011. I entered the 2012 Canadian Christian Writing Awards hoping to place first in the “contemporary novel” category  (and did, indeed, receive an award of […]