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Sherman makes top 14

Kelowna retired police officer Robert Sherman, 68, made the top 14 finalists’ list in the inaugural Cedric Literary Awards for unpublished B.C. writers aged 50 or more.

The works of these 14 finalists were chosen by a panel of judges from 168 manuscripts submitted in the 2015 writing competition.

"I took the challenge of writing this book to share with you the many adventures which I found in a career of police work. As I noted in the Forward, it wasn’t a ‘shoot ‘em up’ Hollywood style work. It was just about lots of situations and cases that happen in the everyday world of policing. Any experienced officer could write a similar book,” said Sherman, who attended the Cedric Awards ceremonies in Victoria this past weekend. “This is what ‘The Job’ is all about."

“With no history to draw upon, we’ve created a spectacular beginning to The Cedric Literary Awards,” said Peter Dale, chairman of Betterthan50 and founder of the writing competition. “We have demonstrated what inclusiveness really means by embracing writers from every region of BC, including First Nations writers.”

“This year’s competition has been inspirational for all of us, and I am extremely grateful to all of the participants for taking a leap of faith by sending us their work,” said executive director Veronica Osborn, adding the next call for submissions will be Feb. 1.



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