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Lubrin lands $10K award for debut fiction
Lubrin lands $10K award for debut fiction

Winnipeg Free Press

time14-06-2025

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Lubrin lands $10K award for debut fiction

Canisia Lubrin better may need to upgrade her literary trophy case soon. On June 5, Lubrin's Code Noir was named the winner of the $10,000 Writers' Union of Canada Danuta Gleed Literary Award, presented to the best first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author in English. The win comes just months after Lubrin won the US$150,000 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for the work of 'linked fictions.' Code Noir also landed on the short lists for the Writers' Trust of Canada's Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction. Subterrane Buy on Lubrin has landed big awards in both poetry and fiction — her 2020 poetry collection The Dyzgraphxst won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2021, an award which came with $65,000. ● ● ● More prizes: Montreal's Valérie Bah has won the $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel award for their book Subterrane, published in October 2024 by Véhicule Press. Dubbed a 'speculative comedy,' the book focuses on the Black and queer voices in the fictional North American metropolis of New Stockholm, and how communities in cities are being short-changed in the name of prosperity. Buy on A number of Manitoba authors have won the Amazon Canada First Novel Award in previous years, including Joan Thomas in 2009 for Reading by Lightning, katherena vermette in 2017 for The Break, Michael Kaan in 2019 for The Water Beetles and Casey Plett in 2020 for Little Fish. ● ● ● Looking for an ideal (and somewhat last-minute) Father's Day gift? Winnipeg music historian and author John Einarson will be signing copies of his latest book From Born to Be Wild to Dazed and Confused: Rock Music's Revolution in 1968 at the Indigo at St. Vital Centre from 1-3 p.m. ● ● ● Michael Decter launches his second novel The Fulcrum at 7 p.m. tonight at McNally Robinson Booksellers' Grant Park location in one of the bookstore's last readings before summer. The novel, Decter's second work of fiction and ninth book overall, follows a budding climate scientist and his long-distance beau, she also a scientist, who encounter a woman on the run from the IRA in Cambridge, Mass. that derails their plans. Meanwhile, the hurricane to end all hurricanes is bearing down on Miami. Can anyone be saved? ● ● ● The Prairie Comics Festival and At Bay Press are co-hosting the launch of the latest graphic novel about four young women in the 1980s hell-bent on justice in the face of the exploitation of women. Curb Angels: Pound for Pound picks up the story the quartet launched in 2019's Curb Angels, written by Christopher Ducharme and illustrated by Lisa Mendis. The latest volume, written by Nyala Ali and illustrated by Mendis, catches up on the foursome as they continue to fight injustice. Every Second Friday The latest on food and drink in Winnipeg and beyond from arts writers Ben Sigurdson and Eva Wasney. The launch of Curb Angels: Pound for Pound takes place Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Prairie Comics Festival studio (611-70 Arthur St.), where Ali, Mendis and typographer Lucas C. Pauls will read from and discuss the graphic novel. Copies of both volumes will be available to purchase and get signed; the event is free to attend. ● ● ● Local authors will convene at Sookram's Brewing Co. (479-B Warsaw Ave.) on Wednesday at 7 p.m. as part of the fourth Wild & Wonderful Words reading event. Hosted once again by creator and local author Sheldon Birnie (Where the Pavement Turns to Sand), the event will feature readings by Ariel Gordon (Fungal, Treed, Stowaways), Mitchell Toews (Pinching Zwieback), Antonio Marrazas Luna and Zoë Mills. The event is free and all ages. books@ Ben SigurdsonLiterary editor, drinks writer Ben Sigurdson is the Free Press's literary editor and drinks writer. He graduated with a master of arts degree in English from the University of Manitoba in 2005, the same year he began writing Uncorked, the weekly Free Press drinks column. He joined the Free Press full time in 2013 as a copy editor before being appointed literary editor in 2014. Read more about Ben. In addition to providing opinions and analysis on wine and drinks, Ben oversees a team of freelance book reviewers and produces content for the arts and life section, all of which is reviewed by the Free Press's editing team before being posted online or published in print. It's part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.

Lubrin lands Carol Shields fiction prize
Lubrin lands Carol Shields fiction prize

Winnipeg Free Press

time03-05-2025

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Lubrin lands Carol Shields fiction prize

Whitby, Ont.-based author Canisia Lubrin has won the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, worth US$150,000 (around $207,000), for her short-story collection Code Noir. In addition to the cash prize, which awards fiction written by women and non-binary writers in the U.S. and Canada, the St. Lucia-born Lubrin also recieves a five-night stay at the Fogo Island Inn. Buy on Code Noir is also a finalist for the Writers' Union of Canada's Danuta Gleed Literary Award, a prize awarded to the best short-fiction collection by a Canadian author. The other finalists are Vincent Anioke for Perfect Little Angels, Billy-Ray Belcourt for Coexistence, Shashi Bhat for Death By a Thousand Cuts and Nicola Winstanley for Smoke. The winner of the $10,000 prize will be announced in early June. ● ● ● Winnipeg poet (and Canadian poet laureate) Chimwemwe Undi's debut collection Scientific Marvel has made the long list for two prizes presented by the League of Canadian Poets. Undi is up for the 2024 Gerald Lampert Award for a debut work of poetry as well as the 2024 Raymond Souster Award for a new book of poetry by a League member. Also up for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is Winnipeg's E. McGregor for the collection What Fills Your House Like Smoke. The short lists will be revealed Wednesday, and the winners of each of the $2,000 prizes announced on May 14. For a complete list of longlisted poets see ● ● ● More books prize news: the five finalists for the Writers' Trust of Canada Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing have been announced, with subjects ranging from residential schools to health care to the rise and fall of Justin Trudeau and beyond. The finalists for the $25,000 prize are: Canada's Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity by Raymond B. Blake; The Prince: The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau by Stephen Maher; Health for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada by Jane Philpott; The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century by Alasdair Roberts; and The Knowing by Tanya Talaga. The winner will be announced on Sept. 24. ● ● ● A trio of book launches are on tap at McNally Robinson Booksellers' Grant Park location over the next week. University of Manitoba labour studies and sociology professor David Camfield launches his latest, Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left, tonight at 7 p.m. Camfield traces the history of communism through the U.S.S.R., China and Cuba through to how today's left is needing to reckon with some uneasy truths if a liberatory alternative to capitalism is to come to be. Camfield will be joined by Andrew Loewen and Tami Gadir. Buy on Ottawa-born former first lady of Iceland Eliza Reid returns to Manitoba to launch her debut work of fiction, Death on the Island. Set on the remote Westman Islands off Iceland's mainland, an ambassador's wife must unpack how and why her husband's deputy was poisoned at a dinner party. Reid, who also wrote 2022's Secrets of the Sprakkar, will be joined at Sunday afternoon launch, which gets underway at 2 p.m., by former CBC host Shelagh Rogers. She'll also launch Death on the Island in Gimli at the Unitarian Church (76 2 Ave.) today at 3:30 p.m. Buy on On Friday, Montreal-based Madeliene Thien launches her new novel The Book of Records at 7 p.m., where she'll be joined in conversation by Jenny Heijun Wills. Thien's new novel is her first in nine years, following her Governor General's Literary Award-winning novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing. In the sprawling The Book of Records, a teen and her ailing father navigate a building called The Sea, which seems exists outside space and time. As migrants come and go, the teen yearns to learn about her past and how she got to The Sea. Buy on ● ● ● Poets, sharpen your pencils (if you in fact use pencils): the next edition of the Speaking Crow open-mic event takes place Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Saint Boniface Library (131 Provencher Blvd.); those wishing to read should show up early. This month's featured poet is Ottawa's Christine McNair. books@ Ben SigurdsonLiterary editor, drinks writer Ben Sigurdson is the Free Press's literary editor and drinks writer. He graduated with a master of arts degree in English from the University of Manitoba in 2005, the same year he began writing Uncorked, the weekly Free Press drinks column. He joined the Free Press full time in 2013 as a copy editor before being appointed literary editor in 2014. Read more about Ben. In addition to providing opinions and analysis on wine and drinks, Ben oversees a team of freelance book reviewers and produces content for the arts and life section, all of which is reviewed by the Free Press's editing team before being posted online or published in print. It's part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.

Ontario writer Canisia Lubrin wins $208K Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Ontario writer Canisia Lubrin wins $208K Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

CBC

time02-05-2025

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Ontario writer Canisia Lubrin wins $208K Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

Canadian writer Canisia Lubrin has won the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. The $150,000 U.S. ($207,582.64 Cdn) prize recognizes the best fiction book by a woman or non-binary writer from the U.S. and Canada. It is presently the largest international literary prize for women writers. The winner will also receive a five-night residency at the Fogo Island Inn in Newfoundland. Lubrin is honoured for her book Code Noir, which was also shortlisted for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Fiction prize. The Code Noir, or the Black Code, was a set of 59 articles decreed by Louis XVI in 1685 which regulated ownership of slaves in all French colonies. In Code Noir, Lubrin reflects on these codes to examine the legacy of enslavement and colonization — and the inherent power of Black resistance. The inherent power of resistance: How Canisia Lubrin's debut novel Code Noir reflects on postcolonial agency Lubrin is a Canadian writer, editor and academic who was born in St. Lucia and currently based in Whitby, Ont. Her debut poetry collection Voodoo Hypothesis was longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, the Pat Lowther Award and was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award. Her poetry collection The Dyzgraphxst won the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. It also won the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2020 Governor General's Literary Prize for poetry. The 2025 jury was chaired by American writer Diana Abu-Jaber. The other jury members are Canadian authors Tessa McWatt, Kim Fu and Norma Dunning and American author Jeanne Thornton. " Code Noir contains multitudes. Its characters inhabit multi-layered landscapes of the past, present and future, confronting suffering, communion, and metamorphosis. Canisia Lubrin's prose is polyphonic; the stories invite you to immerse yourself in both the real and the speculative, in the intimate and in sweeping moments of history," said the jury. "Riffing on the Napoleonic decree, Lubrin retunes the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and violence. This is a virtuoso collection that breaks new ground in short fiction." The four remaining finalists included Pale Shadows by Canadian novelist Dominique Fortier, translated by Rhonda Mullins, along with American titles All Fours by Miranda July, Liars by Sarah Manguso and River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure. They received $12,500 U.S. ($17,301.28 Cdn). The four finalists and the winner will be invited to participate in a group retreat residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction was created to recognize novels, short story collections, and graphic novels written by women and non-binary authors and published in the U.S. and Canada. Planning for the prize began back in 2012 after Canadian author Susan Swan participated in a discussion of the status of women in writing on a panel that included Kate Mosse, who established the U.K. Women's Prize for Fiction and Australian writer Gail Jones. It was moderated by Shields's daughter Anne Giardini. Looking at statistics generated by arts organizations like VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and Canadian Women in Literary Arts (CWILA), Swan found that women writers were being reviewed in publications far less than their male counterparts. The historical numbers for major literary awards are particularly dismal — only 17 women have won the Nobel Prize in Literature since 1909 and about a third of the winners of Canada's oldest literary prize, the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, have been women. Shields, the prize's namesake, was one of Canada's best-known writers.

Canisia Lubrin wins Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for ‘Code Noir'
Canisia Lubrin wins Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for ‘Code Noir'

Winnipeg Free Press

time02-05-2025

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  • Winnipeg Free Press

Canisia Lubrin wins Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for ‘Code Noir'

Canisia Lubrin has won the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for her book 'Code Noir.' The Whitby, Ont.-based author will receive US$150,000. The award is the largest English-language literary prize for women and non-binary authors and is open to Canadians and Americans. Another Canadian entry among the five shortlisted books was 'Pale Shadows,' written by Dominique Fortier and translated by Rhonda Mullins. Jury members praised Lubrin's prose as 'polyphonic,' calling 'Code Noir' a 'virtuoso collection that breaks new ground in short fiction.' Lubrin's other work has been recognized with the Griffin Poetry Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Windham-Campbell prize for poetry and more. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 1, 2025.

Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Announces 2025 Winner and $150,000 Award Recipient (Exclusive)
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Announces 2025 Winner and $150,000 Award Recipient (Exclusive)

Yahoo

time02-05-2025

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Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Announces 2025 Winner and $150,000 Award Recipient (Exclusive)

The winner of the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction has been revealed. PEOPLE can exclusively report that Canisia Lubrin was named the winner of the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction at a live event at the Chicago History Museum on Thursday, May 1. The award recognizes novels, short story collections and graphic novels written by women and non-binary authors published in the United States and Canada. It is the largest English-language literary prize in the world that's awarded to women and non-binary authors. Lubrin was honored for her work on Code Noir, published by Knopf Canada/Soft Skull Press. She will receive $150,000 and a five-night stay at the Fogo Island Inn in recognition of her accomplishments. Related: Miranda July and Rachel Kushner Among Carol Shields 2025 Prize Longlist Nominees — See the Full List! (Exclusive) As the author of books such as Voodoo Hypothesis and The Dyzgraphxst, Lubrin has previously been recognized with the Griffin Poetry Prize, OCM Bocas Prize and the Writers' Trust of Canada Rising Stars award, among others. Conde Noir is Lubrin's debut work of fiction. The jury — made up of jury chair Diana Abu-Jaber, Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, Tessa McWatt and Jeanne Thornton — praised the book in a joint statement shared with PEOPLE. 'Code Noir contains multitudes," their statement said. "Its characters inhabit multi-layered landscapes of the past, present and future, confronting suffering, communion and metamorphosis." "Canisia Lubrin's prose is polyphonic; the stories invite you to immerse yourself in both the real and the speculative, in the intimate and in sweeping moments of history. Riffing on the Napoleonic decree, Lubrin retunes the legacies of slavery, colonialism and violence," the statement continued. "This is a virtuoso collection that breaks new ground in short fiction." Related: Miranda July, Sarah Manguso Among 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Shortlist (Exclusive) Alexandra Skoczylas, CEO of the Carol Shields Prize Foundation, also offered her "warmest congratulations to Canisia Lubrin on her win for Code Noir." 'It is a groundbreaking work of fiction selected from an incredibly strong shortlist," she said. Related: V. V. Ganeshananthan Named Winner of the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Finalists for the prize included Dominique Fortier and Rhonda Mullins (translator), Miranda July, Sarah Manguso, and Aube Rey Lescure. The four finalists will each receive $12,500. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The finalists, along with Lubrin, are all invited to participate in a group retreat residency in the Leighton Artist Studios, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Read the original article on People

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