Congratulations to Lorri Neilsen Glenn (Halifax, N.S.), Tricia Dower (Victoria, B.C.), and Melissa Jacques (Edmonton, AB) on winning The Malahat Review’s inaugural 2010 Open Season Awards in the Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Non-fiction categories respectively.

Of Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s winning poem, “You think of Meister Eckhart,” Judges Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane said: “this poem reminds us again of poetry’s connection with song. How smoothly the phrases move through the mind and into music. It’s a small tour de force of sound and meaning, lyricism at its most brilliant.”

Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s forthcoming collection is Lost Gospels (Brick Books, 2010). A poet, essayist, and ethnographer, Lorri has published four collections of poetry, several books on literacy and inquiry, and is currently working on a collection of essays and an anthology about mothers. Lorri has been writer in residence at St. Peter’s College and Los Parronales, and scholar in residence at Edith Cowan University, James Cook University, among other locations. Lorri works with youth writers and participates in the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia mentorship program. She has taught writing in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Chile, and across Canada, most recently at Nova Scotia’s Great Blue Heron Workshop. Lorri’s poetry and non-fiction have appeared in Grain, Prairie Fire, CV2, Arc, Event, The Antigonish Review, as well as in several anthologies. She served as Halifax’s Poet Laureate for 2005-2009.

For the full story, see http://www.malahatreview.ca/open_season/2010_winner.html

Tags: 2010 Open Season Award, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Malahat Review

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