Awards

Ben Ladouceur, Trish Salah, and Joshua Whitehead named Dayne Ogilvie Prize finalists

Three poets have been nominated for the 2018 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. The $4,000 Writers’ Trust of Canada annual award is presented to an emerging writer from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, ... Read More »

May 17, 2018 | Filed under: Awards

Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home anthology wins 2018 Kobzar Literary Award

By Sue Carter

An anthology of contemporary Ukrainian Canadian writing has won the 2018 Kobzar Literary Award. Co-editors Lisa Grekul and Lindy Ledohowski received the $20,000 prize for Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home featuring contributions by Janice Kulyk ... Read More »

March 5, 2018 | Filed under: Awards

Shortlist announced for the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award

By Shanda Deziel

IBBY Canada (International Board on Books for Young People, Canadian section) has named the nominees for the 2017 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award. The $1,000 prize, established in 1985 – following the death of Mrazik-Cleaver, ... Read More »

March 5, 2018 | Filed under: Awards, Children's publishing

Tanya Talaga wins RBC Taylor Prize for Seven Fallen Feathers

By Sue Carter

Toronto journalist Tanya Talaga has won the $25,000 RBC Taylor Prize for Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City (House of Anansi Press). The book recounts the lives of seven ... Read More »

February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Awards

Gary Geddes wins Writers’ Union Freedom to Read Award

By Sue Carter

Author, poet, and translator Gary Geddes has been awarded the 2018 Freedom to Read Award. The annual prize, presented by the Writers’ Union of Canada, honours a writer whose body of work is "passionately supportive ... Read More »

February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Awards

Dawn Dumont shortlisted for four Saskatchewan Book Awards

By Sue Carter

Dawn Dumont has been nominated for four Saskatchewan Book Awards for her short-story collection The Glass Beads (Thistledown Press), making the Plains Cree author the most celebrated at this year's literary prizes. Naturalist Trevor Herriot ... Read More »

February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Awards

Canadians Casey Plett, Kai Cheng Thom honoured by Stonewall Literature Awards

By Dory Cerny

Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, a speculative-fiction anthology published by Topside Press, has won the Barbara Gittings Literature Award. Co-edited by Canadian author Casey Plett and American poet Cat Fitzpatrick, the ... Read More »

February 15, 2018 | Filed under: Awards

Lionel Gelber Prize shortlist announced

By Dory Cerny

The shortlist for the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize has been announced by jury chair Janice Gross Stein. The five titles – selected by Stein (the Belzberg professor of conflict and global affairs at the University of ... Read More »

February 14, 2018 | Filed under: Awards

Kamal Al-Solaylee, Heather O’Neill among 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize jurors

By Dory Cerny

The five-member jury for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize have been announced, with Canadians Kamal Al-Solaylee, Heather O'Neill, and Maxine Bailey being joined by American author John Freeman and U.K. author Philip Hensher. Jury chair ... Read More »

February 12, 2018 | Filed under: Awards