Lisa Moore Longlisted for the Booker
July 28th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
The title of this post pretty much says it all. If you travel the twitterail and care anything for writing you’ve no doubt heard the news. It’s great to see a Canadian listed, especially a Newfoundlander. If you follow this link you’ll find a cbc.ca article about Moore’s preliminary success complete with other members of the longlist. Congrats to Moore and good luck.
Winterset Has A Winner
March 28th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
This is a few days late, but you’ll still appreciate that Jessica Grant has won this year’s Winterset Award for her novel Come, Thou Tortoise. Here’s a link to the telegram article. Congrats to Grant, who I heard read at the SPARKS festival back in Janurary, where she surprised me with her light, yet exciting reading style.
The runners up both received $1,000: Michael Crummey for Galore and Lisa Moore for February.
Shortlists Announced
March 2nd, 2010 § 1 Comment
Shortlists have been announced for some Atlantic Canadian book awards. You can see the complete lists here and here. It’s good to see Newfoundland authors get a nod in a couple of these. No surprise to see Crummey and Moore on the Winterset Award’s shortlist. Congrats to Mike Heffernan for having Rig shortlisted for the Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing. Also Trudy Morgan-Cole’s By The Rivers of Brooklyn is shortlisted for the APMA Best Atlantic Published Book Award.
Here’s the list for the Atlantic Poetry Prize:
- Anne Compton, Asking Questions Indoors and Out (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
- Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen, Lean-To (Gaspereau Press)
- Zachariah Wells, Track & Trace (Biblioasis)
Anne Compton has seen this list before. I’m not familiar with Klaassen’s work, however. Congrats to Wells also. I’ll be picking up a couple of these titles for sure.
