Chris McMahen Chris McMahen has written in a wide variety of genres. His juvenile novel, Buddy Concrackle’s Amazing Adventure, published by Coteau Books, was given the Our Choice award by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. In October, 2007, he published his second juvenile novel, Klutzhood, published by Orca Books. In addition, he has written everything from bone dry academic journal articles in the fields of Educational Technology and Environmental Education to sports columns for the Vancouver Sun to murder mysteries for Armstrong B.C.’s Asparagus Theatre. Six times he has been a finalist in the Okanagan Short Fiction Competition as well as a runner up in the Shuswap Lake International Writers’ Festival. Currently, Chris works as an elementary teacher-librarian and classroom teacher in Armstrong, British Columbia. An Informal Bibliography -Published an article on the Jasper-Banff relay in the Armstrong Advertiser newspaper, 1984. -Short story, "The Gospel According to J.C. Rutledge," in the anthology, "Quest for the Best," published in 1986. -Okanagan College Creative Writing Competition Finalist, 1987. -Written and directed two plays for children: "Contact" (1984) where alien life forms inadvertently kidnap an entire aerobics class. "Laundry Bags" (1985)- the saga of a lost cat with a name no one could resist. -Vancouver Sun guest sports columnist, 1991. -Published Master's Thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1992. -Competitor and Survivor of the International Three Day Novel Writing Competition, 1993. -Published an article in "Connect," the newsletter of the Education Technology Centre of B.C. titled, "The Curse of the Modem Bottleneck," 1993. -Contributing writer to the "Water Stewardship Handbook", written for the British Columbia Ministry of Environment, 1993. -Published an article in the Journal of Research on Computing in Education: "The Design and Implementation of Environmental Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) Projects," Spring, 1995. -The juvenile novel, Buddy Concrackle's Amazing Adventure, published by Coteau Books, 1996. Winner of the "Our Choice" Award, Canadian Children's Book Centre. -Finalist in the Okanagan Short Fiction Competition in 2004 for “Sounding Old.” -Finalist in the Okanagan Short Fiction Competition in 2005 for “Uncle.” -Second place finisher in the Shuswap Lake International Writers’ Competition in 2005 for “Writer’s Block.” -Second place finisher in the Okanagan Short Fiction Competition in 2006 for “Blind Faith.” -Finalist in the Okanagan Short Fiction Competition in 2007 for “Rising From the Dead at Tim Horton’s.” -Flash fiction “Suicide by Dustbuster” published in the Pinebeetle Review, 2007. -The juvenile novel, Klutzhood, published by Orca Books, 2007. -Runner up in the Pinebeetle Press’s “Big Barkoff” in August, 2007.