HA&L magazine issue eight.1

Short Works Prize for Writing 2015

 

The 2015 Short Works Prize for writing


Awards Announcement
 

Short Works Prize for writing for writing.


CONGRATULATIONS!

2015 SWP Award Recipients:






Published NON-FICTION:
The Alvin A. Lee Prize for Creative Non-Fiction

Margaret Nowaczyk: Ad infinitum

Honourable Mentions:
Judy Pollard Smith: Noon-Day Bright
Brent van Staalduinen: Finding Iraq





Published POETRY
Poetry Prize:
Bernadette Rule
: A Trick of the Light

Honourable Mentions:
Birgit Elston: 1962
Richard Capling: The Hawksbill

 





Published FICTION:

City of Hamilton Ward 1 Fiction Prize
Brent van Staalduinen: Mum 2 Mum

Honourable Mentions:
Krista Foss: Ellesmere
Michael Kras: For Kiera






Unpublished – OFF-THE-RADAR Prizes:

The Mohawk College Prize for Writing
Dyson Wells: Red Waters of the St. Lawrence


The Redeemer University College
Prizes for Writing

Peter Karuna: 
Around the houses to bob, money and dust
Elisha Stam: Vandermeer






Unpublished – YOUTH
The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM
Young Writers Prize:
Tamara Brstina: The Silent Witness
Jaime Delaney: Glad You Came
Lauren Gulka: Savage
Jocelyn Murray: Come Back to Me
Paige Petrovsky: Missing Someone


Honourable Mention:
Amanda Fry: Long Lost Contact






OLDER ADULTS:
The Older Adults category is new in 2015, open to participants in McMaster's Memoir Workshop.

Gillett Prizes:
Marilyn Gear Pilling: Three Score and Ten
Ellen Ryan:
The Attic is Bare but My Heart is Full

Joan Robertson: Claudine's World







Next SWP DEADLINE will be announced in February 2016.



 
 

JOIN US for the 2nd Annual SWP Awards Celebration!


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Sunday September 27th, 2015
DOORS Open: 1pm
McMaster Innovation Park
175 Longwood Road S.
Free Admission
FREE PARKING
Limited Seating
R. S. V. P.


The Short Works Prize for writing is Presented in Partnership by Bryan Prince Bookseller, Hamilton Arts & Letters magazine, and the Hamilton Public Library.


Our thanks to the 2015 SWP Jurors: 
J.S. Porter
Denyse Terry
Richard Van Holst

Youth Prizes Juried by the Editors of HA&L magazine. www.HALmagazine.com

Older Adult Prizes juried by Terrance Odette and Jeffery Griffiths.

Sincere Thanks to our SWP Sponsors and Community Partners!

2015 Prize Sponsorships from: the Rotary Club of Hamilton AM, McMaster University, the City of Hamilton Ward 1, Redeemer University College, and Mohawk College. SWP is funded in part by the Hamilton Author Series. 

Many thanks to McMaster University and the Faculty of Social Sciences for providing a venue for the 2015 SWP Awards Celebration. And thanks to HA&L magazine's Community Partner, The Hamilton Spectator.


SWP Sponsors


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The Hamilton Public Library, Bryan Prince Bookseller, and Hamilton Arts & Letters magazine present the Short Works Prize for Writing.

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