Carol Windley of Nanaimo discovered she was the winner of the 1993 Bumbershoot Weyerhaeuser Publication Award, worth $2,000 to herself and $5,000 to her publisher, even before her first novel was published. Windley won for Visible Light (Oolichan $12.95), a debut collection of West Coast short stories. The judges -- three American novelists -- read edited copies of the manuscript, and the contest was judged 'blind', i.e. no names of author or publisher were included on the manuscripts. Windley was born in Tofino in 1947 and is currently employed by the Vancouver Island Regional Library. 0-88982-124-0

[BCBW, Summer, 1993]