MONTREAL – The Quebec Writers’ Federation has announced the finalists for its 2011 literary awards. Ann Scowcroft (The Truth of Houses) is nominated for the Concordia University First Book Prize, along with Gabe Foreman (A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People) and Jack Read more...
The 2011 ReLit Awards Shortlist Winners of the 11th annual ReLit Awards will be announced at the Ottawa International Writers Festival in October. For the full list, go to ReLitAwards.com Read more...
These 3 books are on the 2011 ReLit longlist in the poetry category: Return from Erebus by Julia McCarthy Alien, Correspondent by Antony Di Nardo The Good News About Armageddon by Steve McOrmond For the full lists for novels, poetry and short fiction and more information about the ReLit Awards, Read more...
The CAA Poetry Award For a volume of poetry by one poet The 2011 winner is Julia McCarthy, Upper Kennetcook, Nova Scotia, for Return from Erebus (Brick Books). Prize: $1000 and a silver medal. Julia McCarthy is originally from Toronto. She spent ten years living in the United States, most Read more...
“The Beautiful Assassin: A Poem Noir” by Méira Cook won a Manitoba Magazine Publishers’ Association Maggie Award for Best Poem or Poem Suite which was published in Border Crossings. The sequence is from a new poetry collection A Walker in the City which will be published in October 2011 Read more...
Return from Erebus, a second poetry collection by Julia McCarthy, is shortlisted by the Canadian Authors Association for the CAA Award for Poetry. For full details, go to http://www.canauthors.org/awards/shortlist.html Julia McCarthy is originally from Toronto. She spent ten years living in the Read more...
Sue Goyette has been nominated for the National Magazine Awards 2011 for poetry – Disrupted; Recession; Fog: Forgotten Names Begin Their Journey Home – which appeared in Fiddlehead and are included in her new poetry collection outskirts. The Gold, Silver and Honourable Mention awards will be Read more...
April 14, 2011 Robert Kroetsch has spent his life writing about his favourite place – Alberta. On this week’s Trailblazers, we sit down with the famed prairie author who received one of this year’s Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Read more...
Robert Kroetsch has spent his life writing about his favourite place – Alberta. On this week’s Trailblazers, we sit down with the famed prairie author who received one of this year’s Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Read more...
Karen Enns and her first poetry collection That Other Beauty has been named a finalist for the 2011 Gerald Lampert Award for best debut collection of poetry in English by a Canadian poet – sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets. Karen Enns is from southern Ontario, where she was born and Read more...
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