File contains Budge Wilson's introductory speech for the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia Short Story Award and a program from the event. The award was won by Jane Elizabeth Ledwell with Beverley Morash (second), Beth Ryan (third), and Kathleen Knowles, Joyce Simpson and Abby Whidden (honourable mentions). Wilson's speech discusses each of the recipients and their submissions in turn.
Item consists of Molly Beresford's handwritten manuscript of her short story "Wot ye what love is? (being a legend of Port Royal)", written sometime in the 1920s and collected by Andrew Merkel.
The fonds primarily consist of scripts, broadcasts, short stories and commentaries from Allen's writing and broadcast career; correspondence; documents relating to Allen's Navy service and personal reference material; CBC election broadcast coverage; and photographs.
File contains three annotated drafts of Budge Wilson's short story "Three Voices," which was published in Chatelaine (February 1983), and correspondence about the story.
File contains five drafts of Budge Wilson's short story "The Very White Christmas," which was published in the Grade 3 textbook "Winter Welcomes" (Scarborough: Nelson Canada, 1987).
File contains three annotated drafts of Budge Wilson's short story "The Unmanageable Monster" (or "Manfred, the Unmanageable Monster"), which was published in the Canadian Children's Annual (1983).
File contains two annotated drafts of Budge Wilson's short story "The Reunion," and a copy of the story as it appeared in The Sunday Star, as the Judges' Choice for the Star short story contest. One of the drafts bears the pseudonym "Anna MacGregor."
File contains an annotated draft of Budge Wilson's short story "The Queen Who Wouldn't Listen," which was published in "Royal Family Fables" (Edmonton: Tree Frog Press, 1989).
File contains three typed drafts with annotations of Budge Wilson's short story "The House on High Street," which was published in "The Courtship" (1994).
File contains two typed drafts with annotations of Budge Wilson's short story "The House on High Street," which was published in "The Courtship" (1994).
File contains two typed drafts with annotations of Budge Wilson's short story "The House on High Street," which was published in "The Courtship" (1994).
File contains two annotated, typed drafts of Budge Wilson's short story "The House on High Street," which was published in her anthology "The Courtship" (1994).
File contains a typed draft with annotations of Budge Wilson's short story "The Happy Pill," which was published in the anthology "Cordelia Clark" (1994).
File contains a typed version of Budge Wilson's short story "The Dress," which was published in the anthology "The Courtship" (1994) and in the University of Windsor Review.
File contains a typed draft of Budge Wilson's short story "The Dandelion Garden : A Modern Fable for Elderly Children," which was published in the "Integrated Language Arts Anthology" (1995) for Grade 6 students.
File contains a copy of Budge Wilson's short story "The Dandelion Garden : A Modern Fable for Elderly Children," as it appeared in the "Integrated Language Arts Anthology" (1995) for Grade 6 students, and two copies of the Permissions Request form from ScottForesman to Budge Wilson for the non-exclusive reprint rights to this short story (originally published in her anthology "The Dandelion Garden and Other Stories").
File contains an annotated photocopy of Budge Wilson's short story "The Courtship," which appeared in The Pottersfield Portfolio: New Writing from Atlantic Canada.
File contains four annotated drafts of Budge Wilson's short story "The Christmas of the Big Blow," which eventually became "The Christmas that Almost Wasn't." The file also contains a rejection letter from Weekend Magazine.