Susan Juby

The Stephen Leacock Associates Board has released the longlist for its Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour award, a $15,000 prize recognizing the best of Canadian humour writing each year:

• J. David Cox, Our Life Off the Grid: An Urban Couple Goes Feral (self-published)
• Charles Demers, The Horrors: An A to Z of Funny Thoughts on Awful Things (Douglas & McIntyre)
• Patrick deWitt, Undermajordomo Minor (House of Anansi Press)
• Aaron Cully Drake, Do You Think This is Strange? (Brindle & Glass)
• Terry Fallis, Poles Apart (Douglas Gibson Books/Penguin Random House)
• Susan Juby, Republic of Dirt (HarperCollins Canada)
• Dr. Stephen Kaladeen, The Secret Life of Doctors (CreateSpace Publishing)
• Stuart McLean, Vinyl Cafe Turns the Page (Viking Canada)
• Sarah Mian, When the Saints (Harper Avenue)
• Elaine Kalman Naves, The Book of Faith (Linda Leith Publishing)

A shortlist will be announced May 6, and the winner June 11.