CBC Canada Writes: Literary Nonfiction
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
I had the honour of acting as a reader for this year’s CBC Creative Nonfiction contest. Here’s my Q and A.
Proved on the Pulses: On the Essay and its Literary Cousins
Archive for the ‘Awards’ Category
Congratulations to Jane Silcott
Saturday, May 26th, 2012
Congratulations to Jane Silcott, who has won the CNFC’s Readers’ Choice Award for 2012 for her wonderful piece on menopause in 18 Bridges. Jane is also nominated for National and Western Magazine Awards for this terrific essay.
Virtual Voyages: Charlotte Gill’s Recommended Reading
Friday, October 14th, 2011
What an honour to find Pathologies on Charlotte Gill’s recommended reading list at Canadian Bookshelf. She calls it a “literary antidote” to the lately much-abused memoir. Can’t help but like that!
Charlotte’s most recent book is Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, which was recently shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize.
Congratulations to Heather Birrell
Friday, March 11th, 2011
….winner of the Edna Award for Creative Nonfiction from The New Quarterly. I was the judge. The award was presented last night in Toronto. I guarantee that Heather’s piece, “The Mr. Shredder Man,” will make you laugh even as it shreds your heart. It’s wry, wise, and beautifully wrought. You can find it in The New Quarterly Xtra.
My task was to pick just one winner from a selection of thirteen of the best nonfiction pieces published in the previous year. I had a hard time narrowing the field. So congratulations also to The New Quarterly’s many wonderful nonfiction contributors, and to editor Kim Jernigan, for consistently publishing such interesting work.
Interview at The New Quarterly: Confessions of a Library Book Thief
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Hardworking Melissa Krone of The New Quarterly must have thought I was the rudest writer on their rosters; she kept sending emails asking to interview me and I kept “ignoring” her. The culprit was my spam filter. But at last we connected, and she’s posted an interview we did at The Literary Type and on The New Quarterly’s website. Thanks, Melissa, for your thought-provoking questions and for the opportunity to share my thoughts.
There’s still time to enter The New Quarterly’s annual contests: details on their site.
