continued his dominance of the Prix Aurora Awards November 20th at the Canadian National Science Fiction Convention, hosted this year by SFContario in Toronto. The Auroras celebrate the best of both Canadian speculative fiction and its fandom. Sawyer's novel Watch, the second in his WWW trilogy about the World Wide Web gaining consciousness, has duplicated the feat of its predecessor, Wake, winning the Prix Aurora Award for Best Long Form Work in English.The award was Sawyer's sixth in the category, and twelfth overall.
Sawyer's wife won the Prix Aurora's inaugural poetry award for her piece The ABCs of the End of the World. , a nominee alongside Sawyer in the Long Form English category won for Best Short Form work with his story The Burden of Fire. In the fan categories, and won Best Fan Organizational for 2010's Toronto SpecFic Colloquium and Winnipeggers and Keycon (Manitoba's premiere SF&F convention) stalwarts and won in the Fan Other category for the conception of the Aurora Award pins handed out to all nominees.
A complete list of winners in all categories may be found here:
Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy
On November 12th, two Manitobans will be honoured at the 5th annual Independent Publishers Moonbeam Awards, held in conjunction with the 2nd annual Traverse City Children's Book Festival. The awards are "intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children's books and their creators, and to celebrate children's books and life-long reading."
It's been an amazing run for Brandon author debut novel, Black Bottle Man. The book, previously shortlisted for On the Same Page through the Winnipeg Public Library, as well as the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year for Young People Award (Older Category) at the Manitoba Publishing Awards, won the Gold Medal in Moonbeam's Young Adult Fiction (Fantasy/Sci-Fi) category. Black Bottle Man is also currently in the running for the Prix Aurora Award for Best Long Form Work in English.
Winnipeg's tied for a Bronze Medal in the Pre-Teen Fiction-Fantasy category for her book Kingdom of Trolls.
A complete list of prize winners may be found here: Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy, Winnipeg
and continue their dominance of Canadian award lists by being among this year's fiction nominees for the 75th year of the Governor General's Literary Awards, .
For a complete list of nominated works, click ****** below.
Categories: Awards, Poetry, Publishing News, Literature
It was reported in the Winnipeg Free Press that would be in McNally Robinson's Grant Park location tonight, however please be advised that his presentation will in fact be tomorrow: Wednesday October 12th.
Event information below:
This is a special theatrical presentation from esteemed editor, publisher and raconteur Douglas Gibson based around his book Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others (ECW Press).
Stories About Storytellers follows the legendary Doug Gibson through 40 years of editing and publishing some of Canada?s sharpest minds and greatest storytellers. Gibson is a terrific storyteller himself, and through his recollections we get an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that rarely gets told. From Jack Hodgins? Vancouver Island to Harold Horwood?s Labrador, from Alice Munro?s Ontario to James Houston?s Arctic, Doug Gibson takes us on an unforgettable literary tour of Canada, going behind the scenes and between the covers, and opening up his own story vault for all to read and enjoy.
Douglas Gibson worked as an editor and publisher from 1968 until he retired from McClelland & Stewart in 2009. His Douglas Gibson Books was Canada?s first editorial imprint and lives on. He travels widely from his Toronto, ON, base.
Categories: Site News, Authors, Event News
Congratulations to Swedish poet , who was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality".
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