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Three honourable mentions for each category.
We are pleased to announce the finalists of the 2022 NCWC.
We are grateful for the support of Mill Street Books and Burnstown Publishing House.
Poetry
The poetry shortlist in alphabetical order by entrant last name:
- “Having Something a Little Stronger with You,” Miller Adams, Ottawa ON
- “Afternoon Tea,” Lori Eileen Gandy, Ottawa ON
- “A Poem for Lucy Lane,” Louise McDiarmid, Perth ON
- “Breathing Dvořák,” Finley Mullally, Perth ON
- “The Question,” Rona Shaffran, Ottawa ON
- “The Depths Below,” Lee Ann Eckhardt Smith, Richmond ON
Short Story
The short story shortlist in alphabetical order by entrant last name:
- “Surf and Turf,” Pat Hunter, Long Sault ON
- “Door to Portal: A Salesman’s Story,” Adam Jarvis, Ottawa ON
- “The Hardest Grief in the World,” Pamela Porter, North Saanich BC
- “Still Living,” Anna Rumin, Ottawa ON
- “The Grocer’s Tale,” Adrienne Stevenson, Ottawa ON
- “Aftermath,” Theresa Ann Wallace, Ottawa ON
Awards Night will take place on
Tuesday, June 14, 2022 6:30 p.m. In Meeting Room A, Beaverbrook Branch, Ottawa Public Library, or via Zoom Contact: NCRadmin@canadianauthors.org
Judges
Heather O’Neill
Heather O’Neill is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Her most recent bestselling novel, The Lonely Hearts Hotel, won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and CBC’s Canada Reads. Her previous work, which includes Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Daydreams of Angels, has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize two years in a row. She has won CBC’s Canada Reads and the Danuta Gleed Award.
Lorna Crozier
An Officer of the Order of Canada, Lorna Crozier’s books have received numerous national awards, including the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry. The Globe and Mail declared The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things one of its Top 100 Books of the Year, and Amazon chose her memoir as one of the 100 books you should read in your lifetime. A Professor Emerita at the University of Victoria, she has performed for Queen Elizabeth II and has read her poetry, which has been translated into several languages, on every continent except Antarctica. Her book, What the Soul Doesn’t Want, was nominated for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry.
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