CONGRATULATIONS!
2016 SWP Award Recipients:
Published NON-FICTION: The Alvin A. Lee Prize for Creative Non-Fiction John Terpstra: Daylighting Chedoke Honourable Mentions: Jane Mulkewich: Sophia Margaret Nowaczyk: A Knitting Class
Published POETRY The Bryan Prince Bookseller Prize for Poetry Jennifer Tan: From Apples and Skulls
Honourable Mentions: Justin Semelhago: Where Am I Sarah Scott: Plains of Abraham
Published FICTION: The Ward 1 Marjorie Baskin Prize for Fiction Amanda Leduc: Graduation
Honourable Mentions: Christine Miscione: Spring Bryan Boodhoo: Regression
Unpublished – OFF-THE-RADAR Prize for Poetry: The Mohawk College Prize for Writing James Puntillo – Poetry: New Boundaries
Honourable Mentions: Christine Hatfield – Poetry: Jerseyville Road Lesley Wellington – Poetry: Geraldine Rose, That’s not where that Goes!
Unpublished – OFF-THE-RADAR Prize for Creative Non-Fiction:
The Redeemer University College Prize for Writing Suzanne Foreman – Creative Non-Fiction: Emerson and The Rain Drums
Honourable Mentions: Phoebe Taylor – Creative Non-Fiction: The Best Costume Peggyanne Mansfield – Creative Non-Fiction: From Behind The Kitchen Stove
Unpublished – OFF-THE-RADAR Prize for Fiction:
The Redeemer University College Prize for Writing Andrew Lee – Fiction: Jamal and the Sea
Honourable Mentions: Nicole Rose Ankenmann – Fiction: The Comforter Steve Simpson – Fiction: The Silent Child
Unpublished – YOUTH The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM Young Writers Prize: Violet Arenburg – Fiction: Insanity Jess Blenkarn – Fiction: A Silent Night Catherine Hu – Fiction: Crash Site Gagandeep Saini – Poetry: The Hanging Tree Diana Galoiu – Poetry: Hope Everlasting
Honourable Mentions: Monica Swayze – Fiction: Swim deep Elise Arsenault – Creative Nonfiction: I Heard God in a Moon Shower Brittany Friesen – Poetry: the dust
OLDER ADULTS: The Older Adults category was open to Memoir Workshop participants.
The Gillett Prizes for Writing: Dean Carriere Jennette Lukasik Gloria Geller
Next SWP DEADLINE will be announced in January 2017.
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Thanks to all who joined us for the 3rd Annual SWP Awards Celebration!
See our SWP AWARDS photos here on Twitter twitter.com/shortworkprize
Sunday October 2nd, 2016 DOORS Open: 1:30pm START TIME: 2:00pm Hamilton Public Library Central Branch 55 York Blvd. First Floor Auditorium Free Admission 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 2016 SWP Jurors: Klyde Broox J.S. Porter Denyse Terry Brent van Staalduinen Jeffrey Griffiths
Youth Prizes Juried by HA&L magazine. www.HALmagazine.com
Sincere Thanks to our SWP Sponsors and Community Partners!
2016 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.
And thanks to HA&L magazine's Community Partner, The Hamilton Spectator.
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