File contains typed drafts with corrections for the twelve short stories included in Budge Wilson's "Friendship" anthology. File also includes notes for Wilson's editor, Helen Reeves, at Penguin Canada.
Item is a signed and published copy of Budge Wilson's book, published by Penguin Canada, with a sticker identifying the book as a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards.
Subseries consists of handwritten and typescript drafts of Budge Wilson's short stories that were included in her anthology "Friendships: Stories." The twelve short stories included in this book are as follows: "Snake"; "Bruno"; "Justice"; "Music Festival"; "My Heroine, Murphy Brown"; "Escape Route"; "Fear"; "Poem"; "Father by Mail"; "Lillian"; "Big Little Jerome"; and "Maid of Honor."
File contains an incomplete draft (missing "Big Little Gerome") with a few pencil corrections, which was sent to Barbara Berson, editor with Penguin Canada. The short story anthology was later renamed "Friendships."
File contains drafts of Budge Wilson's short story anthology "Fractures" (2002), including "Brothers and Sisters," "Carlotta's Search," "Confusion," "Cry Baby," "Fathers," "Like a Water Lily," "Mothers," and "Two Diaries."
Subseries consists of handwritten and typescript drafts of short stories included in Budge Wilson's anthology "Fractures: Family Stories." The short stories included in this anthology are as follows: "Like a water lily," "Two diaries," "Fathers," "Dreams," "Confusion," "Crybaby," "Mr. Manuel Jenkins," "My War," "Brothers and Sisters," "Carlotta's Search," "Mothers," and "The Metaphor."
File contains the final mock up of "The Fear of Angelina Domino," by Budge Wilson with illustrations by Eugenie Fernandes, published by Stoddart Kids of Toronto, Ontario (2000).
File contains a handwritten draft and typed draft of Budge Wilson's short story "Fear," which was included in her anthology "Friendships." The handwritten draft was originally titled "Afraid of Everything."
File contains a draft of Budge Wilson's short story "Fathers." This story was included in an anthology of short stories by Budge Wilson entitled "Fractures: Family Stories" (2002).
File contains a draft of Budge Wilson's short story "Escape Route." This story was included in an anthology of short stories by Budge Wilson entitled "Friendships" (2006).
File contains a typescript and published photocopy of short story Dreams by Budge Wilson. This short story was published in an anthology "The Dandelion Garden" by Philomel Books, New York, 1995.
File contains three annotated, typed drafts of Budge Wilson's short story "Dancing in the Streets," which was included in the anthology "Royal Family Fables" (Edmonton: Tree Frog Press, 1988).
File contains a notebook and notepad with a handwritten draft of Budge Wilson's short story "Dancing in the Streets," formerly titled "The Closet Dancer," which was published in the anthology "Royal Family Fables" (1988).
File contains a draft of Budge Wilson's short story "Cry Baby." This story was included in an anthology of short stories by Budge Wilson entitled "Fractures: Family Stories" (2002).
File contains correspondence between Budge Wilson and Thistledown Press Ltd., regarding her short story anthology "My War." The file includes correspondence from the publisher and a draft and copy of Wilson's reply.
File contains correspondence between Budge Wilson and Priscilla Galloway regarding the creation of a study guide involving "Too Young to Fight," an anthology that Wilson contributed to.
File contains correspondence between Budge Wilson and her copy editor Erin Dewitt, publisher Harcourt Brace, and Leona Trainer from Stoddart Publishing, regarding her short story anthology "Mothers and Other Strangers."
File contains correspondence between Budge Wilson and her copy editor, Sheila Dalton, during the editing of Wilson's anthology of short stories "Cordelia Clark."
