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Michelle Roy Wins Poetry Contest

Black and white photograph of an article published in Le Nouvelliste on May 10, 1962. The headline reads: “Michelle Roy Wins Pan-Canadian Poetry Contest.”
Le Nouvelliste (May 10, 1962).
On May 10, 1962, Michelle Roy won first prize in a national poetry contest hosted by the Société du Bon Parler Français at the Saint-Denis Theatre in Montreal. The article explains that Ms. Roy, who had previously edited the women’s page of Le Nouvelliste, was now working as a reporter.