Congratulations to UAP author Sandra Rollings-Magnusson for being shortlisted for the 2010 CAA Literary Awards for her book, Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders.
Here is the complete media release from the CAA.
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Canadian Authors Association Announces Literary Awards Shortlists
June 8, 2010 – The Canadian Authors Association is pleased to announce the Canadian Authors Association Literary Awards shortlist for 2010. The winners will be announced at the CAA Literary Awards banquet on Saturday, June 26, 2010, at the Harbour Towers Hotel in Victoria, BC during the association’s 2010 CanWrite! Conference.
The shortlisted authors will be invited to read from their work on Friday, June 25 at Harbour Towers. Open to the public, this free event – featuring acclaimed native author and storyteller Richard Wagamese as keynote speaker – promises to be one of the many highlights of this annual writers’ conference.
The 2010 CAA Literary Awards shortlists are as follows:
MOSAID Technologies, Inc. Award for Fiction
• Ian Weir for Daniel O’Thunder, published by Douglas & McIntyre
• Michael Crummy for Galore, published by Doubleday Canada
• Annabel Lyon for The Golden Mean, published by Random House Canada
Lela Common Award for Canadian History
• Jonathan F. Vance for A History of Canadian Culture, published by Oxford University Press
• Sandra Rollings-Magnusson for Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders: The Labour of Pioneer Children on the Canadian Prairies, published by University of Alberta Press
• Jason Schneider for Whispering Pines, published by ECW Press
Carol Bolt Award for Drama
• Joan MacLeod for Another Home Invasion, published by Talonbooks Ltd.
• Hannah Moscovitch for East of Berlin, published by Playwrights Canada Press
• Michael Nathanson for Talk, published by Playwrights Canada Press
CAA Award for Poetry
• Susan Musgrave for Obituary of Light: the Sangan River Meditations, published by Leaf Press
• Joan Crate for subUrban Legends, published by Freehand Books (an imprint of Broadview Press)
• Tom Dawe for Where Genesis Begins, published by Breakwater Books
BookLand Press Emerging Writer Award
• Chad Pelley for Away from Everywhere, a novel published by Breakwater Books
• Jesse Patrick Ferguson for Harmonic, a collection of poems published by Freehand Books
• Rachelle Delaney for The Ship of Lost Souls, a novel published by HarperCollins Publishing
Introduced in 1975, the CAA Literary Awards continue the association’s long tradition of honouring Canadian writers who achieve excellence without sacrificing popular appeal. The above fifteen finalists were selected from approximately 300 nominations.
Sponsors for the CAA Literary Awards include MOSAID Technologies, Inc., the estate of Lela Florence Common, Playwrights Canada Press and Playwrights Guild of Canada, and BookLand Press.
Founded by Stephen Leacock and several other prominent Canadian writers in 1921, the Canadian Authors Association has continued to maintain a focus on “writers helping writers” since its inception. Some 25,000 writers have been members of the CAA in its 89-year history, including Bliss Carman, Nellie McClung, and Robert W. Service.
Media Contacts
Anita Purcell
Interim Executive Director
TF 866 216 6222
Cell 705 955 0716
E anita@canauthors.org
r.l. stephenson-read
Chair, Awards Committee
T 905 342 5570
E awards@canauthors.org
For tickets to the CAA Literary Awards Banquet or to register for the 2010 CanWrite! conference:
Jean Kay
T 604 943 9247
E JKay@canauthorsvancouver.org
www.canauthorsvancouver.org/canwrite
Canadian Authors Association
74 Mississaga Street East, Orillia ON L3V 1V5 TF 866 216 6222 F 866 393 1401
www.canauthors.org
