Vinyl Café Story Contest Archives

STORY CONTEST: On the Job

August 7, 2013 - 7:26 pm

by Mike Doyle This story was written in the summer of 1975 when I worked...

STORY CONTEST: Granny’s Apartment

August 1, 2013 - 9:03 pm

by Elena Richmond By the time I came on the scene, my grandmother was living...

STORY CONTEST: Negative + Positive = Almonte

July 30, 2013 - 5:00 pm

by Mary Anne Harrison A few years after my Dad died, my Mom was moving...

STORY CONTEST: Delivering Telegrams with Dog

July 24, 2013 - 4:52 pm

by Fern Martin In 1958, when I was 13 years old, my parents sold our...

STORY CONTEST: The One That Got Away

July 17, 2013 - 5:05 pm

by Richard Nightingale When you’re a kid, the world is the town you live in. Almonte...

STORY CONTEST: The Sooner Scout

July 9, 2013 - 6:27 pm

by Lucy Carleton A favourite childhood story of mine was in an old grade-school reader...

STORY CONTEST: The Fireman’s Pancake Breakfast

July 6, 2013 - 6:28 pm

by Sarah Robertson Almonte became home to our family in 1979. House-hunting had suddenly become...

Vinyl Café story contest winners selected

July 6, 2013 - 6:28 pm

by Brent Eades A few weeks ago the Town announced a story-writing contest, run in...

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