Pamela Larner

Pam says…Moving to Beach Country a year and a half ago was like coming home. The Lake, the landscape, the lovely variety among the artistic people I have met here, all have encouraged me to become serious about my writing. Much of my inspiration comes from my teaching career, a life-changing period of which was spent in North Africa. More recent grist for the mill has come from my life and struggles as a wheel barrow farmer/B&B operator on a ten acre centennial farmstead in rural Manitoba.

Coming here, I brought along a folder of material I had composed over the years. The Lake Winnipeg Writers’ Group has provided support, enthusiasm and positive literary critique of these works and of my efforts composed since arriving here on Halloween 2012. Sharing one’s work with other writers enables one to see things from varied and often surprising perspectives. Sharing also motivates the writer to do better and more. It has been a pleasure to have my writing published in the LWWG’s twice-annual Voices.

My natural milieu seems to be the short story, although I am currently working at something that is looking more and more like a novel. At this point, I can’t imagine life without the daily and consuming challenge of translating thought into print.

Pam was our Featured Writer for May 2014.

View Pam’s short story:

Seduced

 

Germaine Gougeon

Between Every Stimulus and Response…there is a Pause…Within that Pause is the Power of Choice…

Germaine Gougeon is the newly published author of Sensory Overload, the journal she kept while on a month-long photographic safari in Kenya, Africa. It is currently available at Tergesen’s in Gimli and on the shelf and online at McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg.

Germaine comes from a long line of storytellers and poets and loves being able to count herself as one of them. Gerry spent an active youth in Transcona and raised three adventurous daughters in Anola. Before retirement to Gimli and her immersion into community interests there and in Winnipeg Beach, she worked (as Gerry Brophy) with the public in Beausejour and Winnipeg for the provincial government. Along with her pen, Germaine’s camera has been a lifelong companion in her extensive travels. Her photographs and detailed journals of these adventures are shared with family and friends, who tell her they are a “just like being there” kind of experience.

Germaine was our Featured Writer for December 2013.

View Germaine’s stories and poems:

Night Flight
The Blue Haze
Expressions
A Children’s Story: The Spirit of the Lake
The Twisted Journey
White Waters

 

Debra Dusome

Debra Dusome is the Past President of the Lake Winnipeg Writers’ Group and has been with the group since 2002. She lives outside of Petersfield, Manitoba on a piece of property affectionately called “The Twenty Acre Wood”, with her partner Brenda, Brenda’s parents and four dogs.

Debra likes to write from real life, addresses social justice issues in her writing enjoys reading and writing poetry and likes to make people laugh. Debra is an Assistant Professor at Brandon University and teaches in the Psychiatric Nursing program at the Winnipeg Campus. She is also an Expressive Arts Therapist with a small private practice.

Debra was our May 2013 and February 2015 Featured Writer.

View Debra’s stories and poems:

Baby Ghosts: The Ones Who Are Not Talked About
Hannah’s Refuge
Movie Remake
Watch Out For Betsy #1: Ice Hill

 

 

Teresa-Lee Cooke

Teresa-Lee Cooke (Terry) has enjoyed reading and writing for many years now. She has been involved in musical theater, singing, and as a volunteer performer at Folklorama. Her love of music and theater has drawn her to the “spoken word” type of poetry and many of her works lend themselves to performance.

Up until a year ago, she was employed in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba for nearly fifteen years. She lives in Winnipeg with her partner, Wes, and two kitty companions. She is working towards completing her first book of poetry.

Teresa-Lee wishes to thank the Lake Winnipeg Writers Group for enabling her to share her work. She was our Featured Writer for August 2013.

View Arthur’s stories and poems:

Haiku
Layers
Of Opium and Absinthe
Reboot
Your hand in mine

 

Conni Cartlidge

Conni has been enjoying books all her life. When she was little, her mom took her to the library weekly and her dad read to her every night.

Now a college instructor and parent of three grown children, she writes stories about the places she likes and the people she loves.

She sometimes shares her thoughts on her blog. Connie was our September 2012 Featured Writer.

View Conni’s stories and poems:

Decluttering
Version 1/Version 2

 

Write On The Lake

A Contest of the Lake Winnipeg Writers’ Group

This creative writing contest is open to everyone. All entrants receive a one-year LWWG Electronic Membership.

Three Adult Categories:

  • Poetry — maximum three pages or 1500 words
  • Fiction — maximum 2500 words
  • Non-fiction— maximum 2500 words

Three Youth Categories:

  • Poetry —maximum three pages or 1500 words
  • Fiction — maximum 2500 words
  • Non-fiction— maximum 2500 words

Photo Contest:

Open to adults and youth alike. Colour file of a minimum of 600 dpi (dots per inch) or 1 Mb (megabyte). Send entries on a CD or USB drive along with an entry form.

For each category:

Prizes Adult (18+) Youth (under 17)
First $100 $75
Second $75 $50

Photography:

  • First Prize: Your photo will feature on the front cover of our next Voices.
  • Second Prize: Your photo will feature on the back cover of our next Voices.
  • Limit of two entries per participant.

All winners in all categories will be awarded a certificate.

Entry fee:

  • Adults: $10 for first entry, $5 for a second entry (limit of two entries per category).
  • Youth: $5 per entry (limit of two entries per category)

Mail entries to:

Contest Coordinator
Lake Winnipeg Writers’ Group
Box 1447
Gimli, MB R0C 1B0

Postmark deadline: 13 February 2015

Please follow the rules outlined on the entry form. If you have any questions, contact Pam Larner.

Contest information documents in PDF format:

 

Arthur E. Ammeter

arthurammeterArthur retired after 32 years in the classroom, having taught English, French and History at the High School, Junior High School and Elementary French Immersion levels. He likes to work with dogs, cats, and horses in his spare time.

Arthur enjoys writing short stories and poetry and he has also written inspirational and devotional material for church publications. He was our April 2013 Featured Writer.

View Arthur’s stories and poems:

Buddy
Dust
Railroad
The Choice
Words
On Looking Into An Old Yearbook