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Breakfast Meeting, November 21, 2020

September 6, 2019 Maurus Cappa

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WEN Short Story Contest for 2020

The Third Annual Joseph Smrdelj Short Story Contest for 2020 is now closed. All valid entries have been sent to the judge for review with a target of the end of November. There are great cash prizes starting at $200 for first place. The plan at this time is to announce the winners and award the cash prizes at our annual holiday party in December. At this time we don’t know if this will be a Zoom meeting or an in-person breakfast meeting. Good luck to all the members who submitted entries.

November 21, 2020 Zoom Meeting

Due to Covid restrictions, Canadiana is unable to open the restaurant. For this reason, the November 21, 2020 meeting will be via Zoom. Current WEN members and those whose memberhip expired less than 6 months ago will be sent a Zoom invite on Friday, November. If any members require help with Zoom, please contact our webmaster Maurus Cappa or a friend who is familiar with Zoom. This is our first meeting of WEN with a guest speaker via Zoom.

Our guest speaker via Zoom will be Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli.

She immigrated to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada with her family at three years of age. During her teaching career, she received four OECTA (Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association) Best Practice Awards for her unique strategies in early literacy and other initiatives. Rosanna is a professional member of the Writers’ Union of Canada, the Canadian Authors Association, and the Association of Italian-Canadian Writers. An alumna of the Humber School for Writers, she has been published in seventeen anthologies. She lives in Sudbury and has also done readings in Toronto, Sault Ste. Marie, Manitoulin Island, Montreal, Vancouver, New York City, and Italy. In October 2019, she was one of the four authors featured at the Parry Sound Festival of Authors. Rosanna has a children’s book (Pumpkin Orange, Pumpkin Round) published by Pajama Press (September 2019) and books published with Harlequin UK. Her fiction collection Pigeon Soup & Other Stories will be released by Inanna Publications in 2020.

Rosanna’s novel La Brigantessa (Inanna, 2018) was awarded Gold for Historical Fiction in the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards) and was a finalist for the 2019 Canadian Authors Association Fred Kerner Book Award and the 2019 Northern Lit Award. It won a 2019 International Book Award for Best Cover Design, and The Miramichi Reader’s “The Very Best!” Book Award in 2019 for Best Cover Art (designed by Val Fullard).

Thelma Wheatley Launches New Novel

WEN member Thelma Wheatley has launched a new novel titled “Tamarind Sky”. The virtual launch took place on October 22 of this year. There is a youtube link below of her reading a chapter from this book.

If you like, you can watch and listen to Thelma Wheatley read Chapter 2 from her new book, TAMARIND SKY.

In this chapter (which is short) Selena , a white British girl living in Toronto takes her new fiancee, a dark-skinned Sri Lankan called Aidan, home to Wales to get married in her home town, Cardiff. Selena expects her mother to be happy and welcoming to Aidan, but Mother has different ideas. . .

Click here for the youtube link: https://youtu.be/SgJQRvdsBwM .

Aviva Mayers Launches “If Only I Had Known”

This is a book about options… options for treatment, management, and prevention of breast cancer outside of mainstream medicine. It is the result of the journey that Aviva Mayers took back to health, and many of her choices outside of mainstream medicine are discussed here. Aviva was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008. Like millions of women throughout the world, she initially agreed to a conventional treatment out of fear and confusion. But she began to question those choices as the treatment progressed. Following her treatment she took herself on a journey to learn about gentler, less invasive, treatments outside of conventional medicine. Aviva attributes her current state of good health to the integrative and alternative paths she ultimately followed.

The book includes interviews with patients who followed a path to recovery, much of which they attribute to alternative treatments. And it includes interviews with a range of health care practitioners working with patients with breast or other cancers. The professionals share their thoughts on mainstream treatments, discuss integrative and alternative interventions that can help with recovery, and in some cases even replace conventional treatments. The book also offers advice on how to prevent breast cancer in the first place or how to avoid a recurrence.

If Only I Had Known is essential reading for anyone diagnosed with breast cancer. It provides a unique perspective on treatments that your doctor may not tell you about. Knowing about these options could improve your life both physically and psychologically. The information contained here is also relevant to people suffering from other cancers, since many of the same inflammatory processes may contribute to their cancers. Available on Amazon or FriesenPress.

The author, Aviva Mayers, is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in Toronto. To find out more about her new book, call (647) 282-3943, email: amayers@rogers.com, or visit her website at: www.avivamayers.com/book

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The Third Annual Story Contest for 2020 is now closed. All valid entries have been sent to the judge for review.

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