I’m honoured to be among the writers on this year’s Alberta Literary Awards shortlist. My short story Haircut
(published in Alberta Views) is a finalist for the Howard O’Hagan Award. Winners will be announced at the Alberta Literary Awards Gala
on June 10 in the Lister Centre at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
The Writers Guild of Alberta is presenting two readings featuring shortlisted authors:
An Afternoon with the Authors, Sunday, May 28, at 2 pm at Audreys Books, 10702 – Jasper Ave., Edmonton; and An Evening with the Authors, Wednesday, May 24, at 7 pm at Shelf Life Books, 1302 – 4th Street SW, Calgary.
Here is the complete list of finalists:
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature (Picture Books)
- Paige Feurer (Calgary) – And Then It Rained on Malcolm, Sky Pony Press
- Georgia Graham (Lacombe) – Cub’s Journey Home, Red Deer Press
- Alison Hughes (Edmonton) – What Matters, Orca Book Publishers
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction
- Austen Lee (Edmonton) – “Among Cougars and Men,” Glass Buffalo
- Omar Mouallem (Edmonton) – “Welcoming Omar Khadr,” University Affairs
- Shelley Youngblut (Calgary) – “House of Cards,” The Walrus
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story
- Laurie MacFayden (Edmonton) – “Haircut,” Alberta Views
- Gisèle Villeneuve (Calgary) – “Nuit Blanche with Gendarme,”
University of Alberta Press - Thomas Wharton (Edmonton) – “Bestiary,” Hingston & Olsen
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
- Nora Gould (Consort/Edmonton) – Selah, Brick Books
- Helen Hajnoczky (Calgary) – Magyarázni, Coach House Books
- Richard Harrison (Calgary) – On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood, Wolsak and Wynn
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award
- Rona Altrows (Calgary) – “Letter of Intent”
- Mary Graham (Calgary) – “The Plight, and the Power, of the Stoney Nakoda”
- Lee Kvern (Okotoks) – “Heavy Weight for Silence”
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama
- Ellen Close & Braden Griffiths (Calgary) – My Family & Other Endangered Species
- Mieko Ouchi (Edmonton) – I Am For You
- Vern Thiessen (Edmonton) – Of Human Bondage
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction
- Marty Klinkenberg (Edmonton) – The McDavid Effect: Connor McDavid and the New Hope for Hockey, Simon & Schuster Canada
- Myrna Kostash (Edmonton) – The Seven Oaks Reader, NeWest Press
- Sydney Sharpe & Don Braid (Calgary) – Notley Nation, Dundurn Press
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction
- Lauralyn Chow (Calgary) – Paper Teeth, NeWest Press
- Lisa J. Lawrence (Edmonton) – Rodent, Orca
- Gisèle Villeneuve (Calgary) – Rising Abruptly, University of Alberta Press