Every year, The Word Awards honours the best of Canadian writers and publishers who are Christian. In these Contest Conversations, you can watch interviews with some of the winners. Find out more about their work, who they are, and how they work. Be inspired and learn.
Lynda MacGibon, 2022 Winner of the Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award
Tara K. Ross speaks with Lynda MacGibbon, 2022 Winner of the Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award. Check out her book My Vertical Neighbourhood: How Strangers Became a Community.
Date: March 30, 2023 at 1:00 pm (Eastern)
Marianne Jones, 2022 Winner of the Best Fiction Book of the Year Award
Tara K. Ross speaks with Marianne Jones, 2022 Winner of the Best Fiction Book of the Year Award. Check out her book Maud and Me
Date: March 23, 2023 at 1:00 pm (Eastern)
Carolyn Arends, 2022 Winner of the Best Song Lyrics of the Year Award
Tara K. Ross speaks with Carolyn Arends, 2022 Winner of the Best Song Lyrics of the Year Award. Check out her site www.carolynarends.com
Date: March 2, 2023 at 1:45 pm (Eastern)
Carolyn Watts, 2022 Winner of the Harvey / Mackey Journalism Award
Tara K. Ross speaks with Carolyn Watts, 2022 Winner of the Harvey / Mackey Journalism Award. Check out her blog Hearing the Heart Beat
Date: February 23, 2023 at 1:00 pm (Eastern)
Sherry Stahl, 2022 Winner of the Best Blog of the Year Award
Tara K. Ross speaks with Sherry Stahl, 2022 Winner of the Best Blog of the Year Award. Check out her blog The Soul H2O Blog
Date: February 16, 2023 at 1:00 pm (Eastern)
Sana’ K. C. N. Watts, 2022 Winner of the Writer of Colour Award
Tara K. Ross speaks with Sana’ K. C. N. Watts, 2022 Winner of the Writer of Colour Award. Check out her book Fragile and Flourishing
Date: February 9, 2023 at 12:30 pm (Eastern)
Sherman Lau, 2021 Winner of the Harvey/Mackey Award
Tara K. Ross speaks with Sherman Lau, 2021 Winner of the Harvey/Mackey Award. Read his winning entry.
Date: February 28, 2022 at 2 pm (Eastern)
Parry Stelter, 2021 Winner of Books-Culture and Column-Single
Tara K. Ross speaks with Parry Stelter, 2021 Winner of Books-Culture for Indigenous People and Jesus (Tall Pine Press) and 2021 Winner of Column-Single for “Canadian Thanksgiving and the Indigenous Tension” (The Banner).
Date: March 7, 2022 at 2 pm (Eastern)
Floyd Brobbel, 2021 Winner of the Debra Fieguth Award
Tara K. Ross speaks with Floyd Brobbel, 2021 Winner of the Debra Fieguth Award for his book Trouble on the Way (Genesis Publishing Group).
Date: March 21, 2022 at 2 pm (Eastern)
Carolyn Watts – 2021 Winner of Best Blog of the Year Award
Tara K. Ross speaks with Carolyn Watts – 2021 Winner of Best Blog of the Year Award. See her blog, Hearing the Heartbeat.
Date: March 28, 2022 at 2 pm (Eastern)
About our interviewer
Our interviewer is Tara K. Ross. She is the author of the young adult novel Fade to White and is a winner at The 2020 Word Awards for her short story “Searching for Spotlights.” Tara also hosts The Hope Prose Podcast, a podcast focused on Hope-filled books and writing.