File FL0069 - Canadian Authors Association

49 items; 89 pages; 67 leaves

• Correspondence between representatives of various branches of Canadian Authors Association and Christie Harris, and related material.
• File consists of correspondence regarding Christie Harris joining the Association;
• Speaking to the Victoria and Islands Branch and the Vancouver and Mainland Branch on various topics;
• Submitting a manuscript for a proposed Centennial anthology of British Columbia writers' work;
• Participating in CAA's Golden Jubilee National Convention at the University of British Columbia, June 20-25, 1971, the 1977 National Conference, June 23-27, at UBC and the 1982 National Conference, June 11-14, in Kelowna, B.C.;
• Contributing the article The Challenge of children to The Canadian writer's guide (5th edition, 1973);
• Winning the Vicky Metcalf Award in 1973 and serving as a judge for the Vicky Metcalf Award in 1981.
• File includes poster for Golden Jubilee National Convention, and program brochures for annual conferences in 1971, 1977 and 1982, CAA Bulletins 114, February 1975, and 121, February 1976, as well as March 1980 and April and May 1981, CAA questionnaire and Vicky Metcalf Award bookmark.
• Typescript, signed; holograph, signed.
• Includes references to the following: Raven's Cry; Secret in The Stlalakum Wild; You May Need More Than Fairies at the Bottom of Your Garden; The Challenge of Children; Mule Lib; The Guitar May Be Electric, But the Themes Are Still the Same; The Trouble with Princesses; Children's Books In a Changing World.

Title based on contents of File.