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Three Manitoba magazines are celebrating nominations in Canada’s National Magazine Awards.
Prairie Fire has two nominations in this year’s awards, one for Willy Blomme’s short story The Museum of Winter, in the fiction category, and one for former Winnipeg poet laureate Duncan Mercredi in the poetry category, for his poem Misipawistik. Also nominated in the poetry category is Yilin Wang’s poem Moving, Again, published in Winnipeg-based CV2.
Canada’s History Magazine has been nominated in the personal journalism category for A National Crime, a personalized story by Manitoba Métis journalist Miles Morrisseau about the long afterlife of residential schools, and specifically Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce’s 1922 report on the poor health conditions of children in the schools. The nomination cites a team of editors and the art director as well.
Winners will be announced Saturday, June 3.
The literary world loves to celebrate debut authors, especially those young enough to have long careers ahead of them.
A new U.K. prize for debut novelists over the age of 50 is intended to run counter to that. Literary agency Jenny Brown Associates launches the award at this spring’s London Book Fair. It’s actually the second U.K. literary prize aimed at the over-50 set. The Royal Society of Literature’s Christopher Bland Prize was launched in 2018 for authors of fiction or non-fiction.
After writing a series of books about the strange and unexpected experiences in the life of a veterinarian (starting with The Accidental Veterinarian), Winnipegger Philipp Schott is now also a mystery writer.
He launches his second whodunit, Six Ostriches: A Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery (ECW Press) Wednesday at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location, in conversation with retired Free Press humour columnist Doug Speirs.
Toronto writer Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, who divides her time between that city and Trinidad and Tobago, brings Canada and the Caribbean together in her short-story collection Suite as Sugar (Rare Machines/Dundurn), which she launches Saturday, June 3 at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location in conversation with Rowan McCandless.
From wintry Winnipeg and condo-crazy Toronto’s condos to Havana and Trinidad, the stories in the collection explore colonial histories, abandonment and loss and everyday brutality. The launch begins at 7 p.m.
The 2022 Giller Prize winner, Suzette Mayr, is among the contenders in the Alberta Literary Awards, whose winners are being announced in Calgary on Saturday, June 3.
Mayr is nominated for the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction for her novel The Sleeping Car Porter, along with Darcy Tamayose, for Ezra’s Ghost, and Thomas Trofimuk, for The Elephant on the Karluy Bridge. Mayr is also nominated for the City of Calgary’s W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, along with Vivek Shraya, for People Change, and Joshua Whitehead, for Making Love with the Land.
Contenders for the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction are Brandi Morin, for Our Voice of Fire (also shortlisted in the memoir category), Sandra Rollings-Magnusson, for Tales from the Homestead: A History of Prairie Pioneers, 1867-1914 and Chris Turner, for How to be a Climate Optimist.
Nominees for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry are Tasnuva Hayden, for An Orchid Astronomy, Jaspreet Singh, for How to Hold a Pebble, and Matthew James Weigel, for Whitemud Walking.
The full list can be found here.
Does writing a book mess up your mind, or do you need a messed-up mind to want to write a book in the first place? A recent survey by British book trade magazine the Bookseller, in which 54 per cent of debut writers found the process of publishing the book negatively affected their mental health, is fuelling that debate.
Anxiety, stress, depression and lowered self-esteem were cited as part of the experience, both by writers published by major publishers and independent publishers, and at least one respondent suggested publishers should be responsible for mental health support for authors.
The story can be found here.
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