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Purple Pen Contest News
September 15, 2022: Jessica Hinds-Bond has won the 2022 Purple Pen Competition. Her index appears in the book Discovering Mars: A History of Observation and Exploration of the Red Planet by William Sheehan and Jim Bell (published by the University of Arizona Press).
September 15, 2021: Ruth Martin has won ICI's 2021 Purple Pen Competition. Her index appears in the book All manner of ingenuity and industry: A bio-bibliography of Dr Thomas Willis (1621-1675) by Alastair Compston (published by Oxford University Press).
September 15, 2020: Jess Klaassen-Wright has won ICI's 2020 Purple Pen Competition. Her index appears in the book Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions by Oludamini Ogunnaike (to be published in October 2020 by Pennsylvania State University Press)
September 15, 2019: Vivian Unger has won ICI's 2019 Purple Pen Competition. Her index appears in the book Too Dumb for Democracy?: Why We Make Bad Political Decisions and How We Can Make Better Ones by David Moscrop (published in March 2019 by Goose Lane Editions).
September 15, 2018: Shannon Li is the winner of the ICI Purple Pen Award for 2018. Her winning index appears in The Politics of Middle English Parables: Fiction, Theology, and Social Practice by Mary Raschko (published by Manchester University Press).
September 15, 2017: Sergey Lobachev is the winner of the ICI Purple Pen Award for 2017. His index will appear in the book The Magnificent Nahanni: The Struggle to Protect a Wild Place by Gordon and Shirley Nelson (published by the University of Regina Press).
September 23, 2016: Sam Arnold-Boyd has been announced as the winner of the ICI Purple Pen Award for 2016. She won the with her index for A Thousand Cuts: The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies by Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph, published by the University Press of Mississippi.
September 14, 2015: Frances Curry is the winner of the ICI Purple Pen Award for 2015. Frances won for her submission of the index to Waking the Frog: Solutions for Our Climate Change Paralysis by Tom Rand and published by ECW Press of Toronto, Canada © 2014.
September 15, 2014: ICI announces Stephen Ullstrom as the winner of the ICI Purple Pen Award (new indexers competition) for 2014. He won for his submission of the index to Strange Visitors: Documents in the History of Indigenous and Settler Relations in Canada from 1876, edited by Keith D. Smith and published by University of Toronto Press.