Karen Solie (Photo: Barbara Stoneham)

The Ontario Media Development Corporation has announced the shortlists for its Trillium Book Award/Prix Trillium. The award recognizes titles by Ontario authors in two English- and two French-language categories. The main award, for novel, book of short fiction, drama, or poetry collection, carries a purse of $20,000 for the author and $2,500 for the publisher. A separate poetry award, presented to an emerging author, holds a prize of $10,000 to the author, with an additional $2,000 to their publisher.

The English-language finalists are as follows:

Trillium Book Award for short fiction, novel, drama, or poetry

• Lynn Crosbie, Where Did You Sleep Last Night (House of Anansi Press)
• Andrew Forbes, What You Need (Invisible Publishing)
• Kevin Hardcastle, Debris (Biblioasis)
• Robert Hough, The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan (House of Anansi Press)
• Janette Platana, A Token of My Affliction (Tightrope Books)
• Karen Solie, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out (House of Anansi Press)

Trillium Book Award for Poetry

• Madhur Anand, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (McClelland & Stewart)
• Soraya Peerbaye, Tell: poems for a girlhood (Pedlar Press)
• Damian Rogers, Dear Leader (Coach House Books)

English and French-language winners will be announced June 22.