Cassie Stocks has won the 2013 Leacock Memorial Medal for humour for her debut novel Dance, Gladys, Dance (NeWest Press).

The other shortlisted titles were:

• Terry Fallis, Up and Down (McClelland & Stewart)
• Jonathan Goldstein, I’ll Seize the Day Tomorrow (Penguin Canada)
• Andrew Kaufman, Born Weird (Random House Canada)
• William Whitehead, Words to Live By (Cormorant Books)

Stocks will receive her $15,000 prize at the Leacock gala dinner, June 8 in Orillia, Ontario.