24th Annual Writing Contest Judges
Short Fiction
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Poetry
Billy-Ray BelcourtBilly-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He lives in Vancouver, where he is an Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. His books are THIS WOUND IS A WORLD, winner of the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, NDN COPING MECHANISMS, longlisted for Canada Reads 2020, and A HISTORY OF MY BRIEF BODY, a finalist for the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction and winner of the 2021 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize |
BIPOC Personal Essay
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Creative Nonfiction
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Bill MacDonald Prize for Prose (Nonfiction)
John Elizabeth StintziJohn Elizabeth Stintzi is a non-binary writer, artist, and editor who grew up on a cattle farm in northwestern Ontario. Their work has been awarded the 2019 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, The Malahat Review’s 2019 Long Poem Prize, the Sator New Works Award, and has been shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award and the Raymond Souster Award. JES is the author of the novels My Volcano (2022) and Vanishing Monuments, as well as the poetry collection Junebat. They are a poetry editor for CV2 as well a writing instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute. |