Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Tomorrow the winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour will be announced

2015 winner to be announced April 30

  

The winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour and the $15,000 TD Financial Group prize will be announced April 30 at a luncheon celebrating the top five authors as determined by an independent judging panel. It will be held in Orillia, Ontario, at the Best Western Mariposa Inn, Hermitage Room, from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m.

Tickets sell fast for this humour-filled event, popular with Stephen Leacock fans, enthusiastic readers of Canadian literary humour and others connected to the publishing industry.

Tickets are $26 for members, $30 for non-members, and are available from Donnajean Jefferies at 705-325-1757 or email leacocklunch@gmail.com.

The luncheon will be attended by the shortlisted authors — Aaron Bushkowsky (Curtains for Roy), Alan Doyle (Where I Belong), Terry Fallis (No Relation), Zarqa Nawaz (Laughing All the Way to the Mosque), Robert Wringham (A Loose Egg) — or their representatives, as well as local dignitaries.

 

All this information is from the  http://leacock.ca/2015/04/22/2015-winner-to-be-announced-april-30/    site. Please click on it today for more information!

 

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