Maria Reva and katherena vermette appear on GG English-language fiction shortlist
Karen Solie's Wellwater (House of Anansi Press) is nominated in the English-language poetry category
Sheung-King wins Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Batshit Seven; Martha Baillie takes nonfiction award
Sheung-King's win completes the trifecta for Penguin Random House Canada, which published each of the three big fiction prize winners this year.
Three of five Atwood Gibson Prize nominees are writers who pulled their books from Giller contention
The two other nominees for this year's prize also appear on the Giller longlist.
Fawn Parker deconstructs male ego and the image of the great man in literature and academia in two angry, unflinching novels
Despite some missteps and shots at easy targets, Parker's novels combine to form a provocative riposte to a culture that valorizes a certain kind of profane masculinity.