The 2022 Forest of Reading Awards closes with final round of winners
Yesterday, Wednesday, May 18, the winners of the Silver Birch Express Award, the Silver Birch Fiction Award, and the Yellow Cedar Award were announced.
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Forest of Reading Awards announces second round of winners
The winners of the Silver Birch Express, the Silver Birch Fiction, and the Yellow Cedar awards were announced today.
Harnessing the power of images to tell the real story of heroin use in Canada
In Heroin: An Illustrated History, scholar and activist Susan Boyd wanted to tell the story not only of how heroin went from prescribed drug to illegal substance, but also of the harm-reduction activists and heroin users who have mounted a sustained resistance to prohibition and called attention to the continued overdose crisis.
Joanna Chiu wins 2022 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize
Chiu was awarded the $25,000 prize for her book, China Unbound: A New World Disorder (House of Anansi Press), at the Politics and the Pen gala in Ottawa on Tuesday night.
Forest of Reading Awards kicks off three-day ceremony with first round of winners
Over 270,000 children read the nominated books, and nearly 120,000 voted this year.