2021 EMERGING WRITERS SHORT - PROSE COMPETITION winner
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FEBRUARY 2021 EBULLETIN - VOLUME 92
2021 EMERGING WRITERS SHORT
PROSE COMPETITION winner
The Shevchenko Foundation is pleased to
announce that “Carpathian Spruce” by Thunder
Bay area writer Adrian Lysenko is the winner of
the 2021 Emerging Writers Short Prose
Competition.
“I am honoured to have won the second annual
Shevchenko Foundation Emerging Writers Short
Prose Competition. Like many initiatives created
by the Shevchenko Foundation, this competition
is an excellent opportunity to advance Ukrainian Adrian Lysenko
Canadian culture”, said Mr. Lysenko.
The jury members this year consisted of award-winning Canadian author
Marsha Skrypuch, writer, literary critic and MacEwan University Associate
Professor and Program Coordinator of Creative Writing Jacqueline Baker,
and producer and librettist/writer and member of the Shevchenko
Foundation Board of Directors, Gordon Gordey.
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KOBZAR™ BOOk award
In 2020, BC author and poet Laisha
Rosnau won the Kobzar™ Book
Award for Our Familiar Hunger, a
book of poetry exploring the lives of
Eastern European women in
Ukraine and Canada. Presented
biennially, the Award recognizes
outstanding contribution to
Canadian literary arts by authors
who write on a topic with a tangible
connection to the Ukrainian
Canadian experience. KOBZAR BOOK AWARD
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Deadline for submission for the Laisha Rosnau
2022 Kobzar™ Book Award is May
31, 2021. SUBMIT NOW
our shevchenko bookmark
The Shevchenko Foundation congratulates Valeriy Semenko for his winning
submission of artwork for the 2021 Shevchenko Foundation bookmark,
based on the chosen literacy excerpt from Taras Shevchenko’s poem
“Бандуристе, орле сизий…”/ “Bandurist, my blue-grey eagle…”
Over 35,000 bookmarks will be printed
and distributed across Canada to
Ukrainian language schools, dance
schools and youth organizations. Donors
to Shevchenko Foundation will also be
receiving the bookmarker as a token of
our appreciation!
Edmonton artist Valeriy Semenko was
born in the picturesque part of Western
Ukraine, Bukovyna, in 1961. He began his
art education at the School of Fine Art in
his hometown of Chernivtsi, and later
became a student of the Ivan Fedoriv
Valeriy Semenko Publishing Academy, Faculty of Graphic
Arts, in Lviv, Ukraine.
As a graphic artist he created and published illustrated thematic books and
art calendars. His personal artistry and editorial expertise graced numerous
art catalogues, posters, and invitations for numerous exhibitions which took
place in Germany, France, Lithuania, and Ukraine.
He is a member of the Union of Advertisement Makers of Ukraine. Artworks
by Valeriy are in the private collections worldwide.
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