Subseries consists of handwritten and typescript drafts of short stories included in Budge Wilson's anthology "Courtship and other Stories." Short stories included in the anthology are as follows: "The House on High Street," "The Courtship," "Elliot's Daughter," "Mrs. Garibaldi and Leonardo," "Mrs. MacIntosh," "The Canoe Trip," "The Losers," "The Dress," and "Janetta's Confinement."
File contains two notebooks and loose-leaf pages with a handwritten draft of Budge Wilson's short story "The Courtship," which was published in "Pottersfield Portfolio" (1999).
File includes two manuscript drafts; handwritten notes; a letter from Vingoe to James Roy with a detailed synopsis of her radio adaptation of Sheldon Currie's story; correspondence to Sheldon Currie; and CBC's Dave Carley's notes on the radio script.
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.
File contains a handwritten draft of Budge Wilson's short story "The Charmers" (later named "The Charmer"), which was published in the anthology "Cordelia Clark" (1994).
File contains a notebook with a handwritten draft of Budge Wilson's short story "The Canoe Trip," which was published in "Islands in the Harbour" (1990).
File contains Budge Wilson's presenting speech for the Short Story Award at the 1999 Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia Gala (WFNS). The file includes her handwritten draft and final typed copy of the speech and a copy of the program for the event. The Short Story Award was won by André Narbonne with Leigh Anne Williams (second), Eve Mills Nash (third), and Lindsay Preston and Karen Leah Whalen (honourable mentions). Wilson's speech briefly discusses each individual and their short story submission.
Series contains short stories, both published and unpublished. The types of records included here are drafts, clippings of published articles, copies of publications containing short stories, and related correspondence, research, photographs, and notes.
Series consists of independent short stories written by Budge Wilson (i.e., those not included in complete anthologies by Wilson). Series includes drafts and proofs with annotations by Budge Wilson and her editors.
File contains a copy of the report prepared by Mary Culham and Pierre Sved on the Sharla Project, including a description of the project, program, a financial report, and reports from the winners of the short story competition (Maria-Fernanda Manzano and Natalia Morris), including copies of their winning submissions.
File contains two drafts of a review written by Budge Wilson for the short story anthology "Words Unrealized" (Breakwater Press, 1991), which was written for The Daily News.
Item is an audio cassette with an interview of Budge Wilson by Jane Kansas of Radio Free Kansas and a reading of Wilson's short story "The Happy Pill."
File contains a handwritten draft of Budge Wilson's short story "Questions and Answers," which was first published in "The First Time: True Stories," volume 1 (Orca Books, 1995).
File contains three annotated drafts of Budge Wilson's short story "Questions and Answers," which was published in "The First Time," edited by Charles Montpetit (Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers, 1995).
File contains an annotated, typed draft of Budge Wilson's short story "Questions and Answers," which was first published in "The First Time: True Stories," volume 1 (Orca Books, 1995). The draft was typed by Alan Wilson, her husband.
File contains published short stories written by Joyce Barkhouse. The stories are mostly found in magazines such as The Canadian Boy and Discovery, and include title such as "Pioneer Preacher" and "The Purple Cloak" instalments.
File contains records relating to a conference at Dalhousie University, "The Creation, Dissemination and Preservation of Literature: A Conference of Professionals from the Maritime Provinces and St. Petersburg, Russia. Budge Wilson read a short story at the conference.