The Writers’ Guild of Alberta announced the winners of this year’s Alberta Literary Awards on May 23, during the Alberta Literary Awards Gala.
The Writers’ Guild of Alberta was formed in 1980 and is the largest provincial writers’ organization in Canada. The guild created the Alberta Literary Awards in 1982 to recognize excellence in writing by Alberta authors. This year, jurors deliberated over 150 submissions to select 24 finalists in eight categories.
The list of winners is:
Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature
Richard Van Camp, Little You (Orca Book Publishers)
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction
Rudy Wiebe, Come Back (Knopf Canada)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction
Ted Bishop, The Social Life of Ink: Culture, Wonder, and Our Relationship with the Written Word (Viking Canada)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama
Cheryl Foggo, John Ware Reimagined
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
Sarah Lang, For Tamara (House of Anansi Press)
James H. Gray Award for Short Non-Fiction
Chris Turner, “Owen’s Ark” (The Walrus)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story
Katie Bickell, “But For the Streetlamps and the Moon and All the Stars” (Tahoma Literary Review)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award
Kim McCullough, “Tributaries”
WGA Golden Pen Award for Lifetime Achievement
Betty Jane Hegerat