Winnipeg poet wins $25K Governor General’s Literary Award

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Winnipeg poet Hannah Green’s debut collection Xanax Cowboy, published by House of Anansi Press, has won the 2023 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry.

Green was announced as winner of the $25,000 poetry prize, along with winners in fiction, non-fiction, drama, translation and young people’s texts in both English and French, on Wednesday morning.

Misipawistik Cree Nation writer Darla Contois from Grand Rapids was among the finalists for the drama prize for her play The War Being Waged, published by Winnipeg’s Scirocco Drama, an imprint of publisher J. Gordon Shillingford. Scirocco also had a title as a finalist for the prize for translation (French to English category), Okinum by Émilie Monnet.

For the complete list of winners and finalists, see ggbooks.ca.