CBC’s Canada Reads: Canada’s Annual Battle of the Books selected Butter Honey Pig Bread as one of five contenders in 2021 for “the one book that all of Canada should read.” Championed by Roger Mooking, the book made it to the grand finale, where it placed second. Butter Honey Pig Bread was also shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the DUBLIN Literary Award. She was awarded the Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers in 2022 for her debut novel Butter Honey Pig Bread (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020). Her work has explored themes of faith, family, queerness, consumption, loneliness, and belonging. She teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.įrancesca Ekwuyasi is a learner, artist, and storyteller born in Lagos, Nigeria. Other books include Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction, made into a Lifetime TV movie Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, which won the AWP Award The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew and Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir. How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences won the gold star in Foreword Book of the Year Award and the 2021 Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature. Sue William Silverman is an award-winning author of seven works of creative nonfiction and poetry. Creative Nonfiction: Sue William Silverman

His twelfth book, Alabama, will be forthcoming in 2023 from Louisiana State University Press in their Southern Messenger Poetry Series. His honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize. Prize submission period February 1st – March 31stĢ5th Annual Arts & Letters Prize Judges Announced 2023 Prize Judges Poetry: Rodney Jones

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