Three poets and three short story writers have been named finalists for the 2024 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers.

The annual awards, given annually since 1994, aim to identify the work of promising new writers in Canada and give them a boost in achieving a book deal.

The winner in each category receives $10,000, while the finalists receive $2,500.

Short fiction finalists

• Henry Heavyshield for Our Rez Anomaly
• Nayani Jensen for Like Rabbits
• Reid Kerr Keller for On Venlafaxine and Ghosts

Poetry finalists

• Ashleigh A. Allen for “Balcony buffalo”
• Faith Paré for “Selections from ‘a fine African head’”
• Sneha Subramanian Kanta for “Hiraeth”

The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Toronto on June 3.