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Providence Press is accepting entries for the 1997 Providence Press Christian Poetry and Prose Awards. Over $1,500 in cash awards will be awarded in three categories: 13 years old and under; 14-19; and 20 and older for poems up to 24 lines or essays up to 350 words. Each category has a top prize of $150, second is $100 and third prize is $50. There is no entry fee, and all winners will have their work published. There is a grand prize of $500 for best entry. Contact Providence Press, Box 328, St. Eugene, Ont., K0B 1P0. The deadline is Feb. 15, 1997.

In the last recorded year (1993), two billion books were sold in the US, more than half of them paperbacks.
Old Farmer's Almanac (Canadian Edition)

Contemporary Christian rock band PFR presented their final concert ever Sept. 29 in Minneapolis. After six number one singles on the Christian charts, and eight years together, the band is disbanding at the height of their popularity. Band members say they are not splitting up because of any trouble, they just think it's time. "We knew why we started, and we always thought we would know when to end". They disbanded just after the release of their final album, Them.
Evangelical Press News Service

Larry Warkentin, chair of the music department at Fresno (Calif.) Pacific College, was recently granted an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers cash award based on "the unique prestige value of his catalog of original compositions as well as recent performances of those works". An independent panel of six nationally recognized musicians selected Warkentin as part of ASCAP's effort to "assist and encourage writers of serious music".
FPC

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