Awards Ceremony – Surrey Muse Art & Literature Awards 2022

The five 1st Place Winners of this year’s Surrey Muse Art & Literature Awards will present their winning entries, and engage with the participants.

Saturday, November 26, 2022
1 – 4pm (PT)
Room 120, City Centre branch, Surrey Libraries
10350 University Drive, Surrey BC
Phone: 604-598-7426

Guest of Honour: Poet/Educator/Arts Activist Joanne Arnott

Featured Artists
Author Lynn Hutchinson Lee, Toronto ON
1st Place Winner, Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction 2022
Musician Ben Sures, Edmonton AB
1st Place Winner, Faith Nolan Award for Music 2022
Author Claire Lawrence, Port Moody BC
1st Place Winner, Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction 2022
Poet Hari Alluri, New Westminster BC
1st Place Winner, Vera Manuel Award for Poetry
Artist Sena Cleave, Vancouver BC
1st Place Winner, Norval Morrisseau Award for Visual Arts

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Winners – Surrey Muse Art & Literature Awards 2022

WINNERS ANNOUNCED for Surrey Muse Art & Literature Awards 2022

Surrey Muse Awards

Surrey Muse Arts Society congratulates the 2022 winners of the five Surrey Muse Art & Literature Awards, and wishes each a resounding success in achieving next levels of creativity and recognition. The quality of submissions was high this first year making it a tough competition in each area.

Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction 2022

1st Place Winner
Nightshade’ by Lynn Hutchinson Lee, Toronto ON

2nd Place Winner
The Stoner Files’ by Cynthis Sharp, Vancouver BC

3rd Place Winner
White Snow and Seven Dreams’ by Melissa Yuan-Innes, North Lancaster ON

Honorable Mentions

‘We are not Seahorses’ by K.R. Byggdin, Halifax NS

‘Watching the Swans’ by Lucy E.M. Black, Port Perry ON

‘The Boy’ by Samantha Krilow, Surrey BC

For the Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction, we are grateful to Judge Cathleen With, Jury Members Hannah McReady and Fauzia Rafique, and, Author Joy Kogawa for giving us permission to…

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The 13th Virtual Gathering of Surrey Muse – Friday April 23 / 2021

103rd Gathering

 

Featured Guests
Author Fauzia Rafique
Poet Tariq Malik
Filmmaker Arlene Bowman
Open Mic Opener Barbara Carter
Featured Art by Ithell Colquhoun
Host Mariam Zohra

LIVE Watch Party
Friday, April 23, 2021
5:30 -7:00 PM (PT)
Join us on YouTube
Surrey Muse Channel on YouTube

Open Mic submissions
Submission guidelines
Send 3-5 minute video/audio recordings via email by April 15th

Free event
Donations welcome

View previous program videos at
Surrey Muse YouTube channel

Updates will be posted here
Program
Videos will be posted here
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More about the gatherings
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Support our Projects
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Women Who Named the Unnamed

Contact
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Surrey Muse gatherings take place
on the unceded Coast Salish territories of
the Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen,
Qayqayt, Tsawwassen, Musqueam,
Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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Call for Submissions – Surrey Muse Open Mic Session June 2020

Surrey Muse Arts society (SMAS) is delighted to invite authors, poets, performers, painters, artists to participate in the Open Mic session of the June 26 virtual gathering of Surrey Muse.

Your contribution will be added to the pre-recorded Program Video of the Fourth Virtual Gathering of Surrey Muse. View earlier program videos on YouTube:
youtube.com/channel/UCZbc4p_Z7H0powudI18ePhg

The Gathering will happen on June 26, 5:30-7:30 PM (PT) where the Program video will be released in a LIVE Watch Party on Facebook at:
facebook.com/surreymuse

Submissions
Send us a 3-5 minute video (mp4, mov), audio (mp3, wav, aiff), or text file (any doc, 12pt Times New Roman) featuring your work. Add a 50-word introduction of yourself, and a link to your website or blog.

Genre
Surrey Muse Open Mic presents art in any form. Send us poems, stories, memoir, creative prose; songs, instrumentals; a tour of your paintings, sculptures, ceramics; short films, monologues, skits, or any other form of your art.

Language
The language of expression at Surrey Muse is English but you are welcome to present in another language. if so, please add the English translation of the work.

Send submissions to
surrey.muse@gmail.com

Subject line
‘Call for Submissions – Surrey Muse Open Mic Session June 2020’

Dateline
Audio and Text files : June 12, 2020
Video files : June 16, 2020

Mandate
‘Surrey Muse Arts Society (SMAS) is committed to inclusivity and equality, and wishes to create opportunities for everyone in the arts communities regardless of race, ethnicity, social or economic status, gender, disability, sexuality, religion or any other similarly restrictive category.’ Submissions that offend our mandate or objectives will not be accepted.
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Recommendations
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‘LIKE’ us on FB
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Support our Projects
Surrey Muse At Large (SMAL)
Surrey Muse Writers
Women Who Named the Unnamed

Contact
surrey.muse@gmail.com

Surrey Muse gatherings take place
on the unceded Coast Salish territories of
the Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen,
Qayqayt, Tsawwassen, Musqueam,
Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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