On this page, ENGAGE with me personally. I’ll post articles I hope you find winsome, as well as bits of news and musing about my current activity. I welcome your comments.
Subscribe to my email newsletter to receive a free MiniMag, a colourful online publication full of bonus content about my novel The Red Journal. Or you can connect by Facebook or by email: deb@debelkink.com.
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 getting lots of attention and I’m being interviewed by radio and newspapers and maybe even TV. What fun!
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
*
*
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 merit in this category). But I had no thoughts of winning the grand prize for the book of the year! I attended the gala put on by the sponsoring organization, The Word Guild, on June 13, 2012, in Ontario, and was truly astonished to be called up to the mike for the $5,000 Grace Irwin Award. Read about it here: http://canadianchristianwritingawards.com/
look at the pure happiness on your face deb! love it! oh, and by the way, i also loved that book! after a brief taste of the topic for your next, all i can say is “start writing girlfriend!”