Greg Hollingshead

The Writers’ Guild of Alberta honoured eight of the province’s writers at the Alberta Literary Awards on June 4.

From shortlists of 25 finalists in eight categories, culled from more than 200 submissions, the jury selected the following winners:

WGA Golden Pen Award for lifetime achievement

• Greg Hollingshead

Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction

• Bradley Somer, Fishbowl (St. Martin’s Press)

Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-fiction

• Andrew Nikiforuk, Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry (Greystone Books)

Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry

• Marilyn Dumont, The Pemmican Eaters (ECW Press)

R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature

• Kate Boorman, Winterkill (Abrams/Amulet Press)

Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama

• Beth Graham, The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble (Playwrights Canada Press)

Howard O’Hagan Award for Short-story

• Thomas Wharton, “Filters” (FreeFall)

James H. Gray Award for Short Non-fiction

• Jane Harris, “The Unheard Patient” (Alberta Views)

John Whyte Memorial Essay Award

• Elizabeth Withey, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”