Awards news

Splitting out the awards news today so I can brag a little extra about some friends and students and students who are friends.

• The Governor General’s Award finalists include two students from my Walk the Line Poetry courses (Michelle Good and Donna Kane) as well as Canisia Lubrin who you all know I follow like an apostle;
• But wait, there’s more… Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians has been on a crash course for the stars, with a Giller longlisting, the GG, an Indigenous Voices Award shortlisting and …;
• The Amazon First Novel Award shortlist… What a year for this brave and unflinching work, and what a year for Michelle, who deserves all good things;
• Stephen Leacock Medal shortlist includes Thomas King’s hilarious Indians On Vacation;
• More translate award news (ganked from The Lit Saloon);
• The Locus Awards for my spec readers;