WINNERS

2003

Short Story

First Prize - English
Jane Eaton Hamilton - The Lost Boy

Jane Eaton Hamilton is the author of six books published in Canada and abroad. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Maclean’s, Canadian Gardening and Seventeen magazine as well as in numerous anthologies. She grew up in Ontario and now lives in Vancouver with her wife and their two daughters. She is also a photographer and is training to become a Master Gardener

Second Prize - English
Janice McCachen - Vertigo and the Sex Queen

Janice McCachen teaches Creative Writing and English in Victoria, B.C., where she lives with her husband and three children. She began writing short fiction recently and belongs to a writer’s collective dubbed the Ladies’ Fiction Club. “Vertigo and the Sex Queen” will be her first published story.

First Prize - French
Nicole Filion - Librairie de la place

Nicole Filion has been living in the Matapédia for almost 30 years. She has won scholarships from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. Even though she is a latecomer to writing, she already has many books to her credit, including her latest: Histoires à jeter après usage (2002).

Second Prize - French
Catherine Desgagnés - Un homme ordinaire

Catherine Desgagnés was born in 1980 and lives near the St. Lawrence River in the Montreal borough of Verdun. In 1999, she won second prize at the Marathon intercollégial d’écriture, and first prize in the detective-story category at the Salon du Livre de Québec. She is currently completing a master’s degree on poet Saint-Denys Garneau’s writings on art.

Poetry

First Prize - English
Rob Winger - Selections from Muybridge’s Horse

After teaching and travelling in Asia for several years, Rob Winger and his partner are currently living in Ottawa, where Rob divides his time between writing, doctoral studies and teaching his baby boy to crawl. He has an M.A. in English and bachelor’s degrees in Education, Literature and Photography.

Second Prize - English
Jan Conn - Amazonia

Jan Conn has written five books of poetry, most recently Beauties on Mad River, published by Véhicule Press. The poems that comprise her recently completed manuscript, Jaguar Rain, are inspired by the journals, paintings, and sketches of the Amazonian explorations of botanical illustrator and naturalist Margaret Mee (1909-1988). Born in Asbestos, Quebec, Conn received her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Toronto.

First Prize - French
Kim Doré - Comment voir le poisson rouge dans l’eau rouge du bocal?

Montrealer Kim Doré published her first book of poems, La dérive des méduses, at age 20, and won the Prix Relève du Salon du livre du Saguenay–Lac-St-Jean. Last year, she won second prize in the poetry category in the CBC Literary Awards/Prix Littéraires Radio-Canada competition. Her second book of poems will be published this fall.

Second Prize - French
Annie Perrault - Le pain quotidien

Annie Perrault was born in 1970 in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. In 1996, she published her first book of poems, Un acte de présence, at Éditions des Forges. A trained pharmacist, she is currently working on her second book. Her writings are greatly influenced by her job as a pharmacist.

Travel Writing

First Prize - English
Stephen Osborne - Girl Afraid of Haystacks (A story of travel and exile)

Stephen Osborne is the editor of Geist magazine and author of Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World. He has received several awards for his writing, and his novel, For You Who Grow Pale at the Mention of Vancouver, is scheduled to appear in the fall of 2004.

Second Prize - English
Alayna Munce - All Welcome

Alayna Munce grew up in Huntsville, Ontario. She has spent most of her adult life in the uncertainty, drudgery, delight and occasional ecstasy of writing, working in bars and community centres in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto, and immersing herself in politics and culture. Currently in search of a publisher, her first manuscript draws on the life of her maternal grandparents and explores, in poetry and prose, questions around aging. She is now at work on a novel.

First Prize - French
Isabelle Giasson - La délicieuse odeur de miel des jeunes éléphants mâles

Isabelle Giasson is an adventurer. After earning a Bachelor of Education degree, she taught the Inuit in the Arctic, took part in the last edition of the Course Destination Monde and was a member of the Everest Millennium Expedition for an NFB documentary. Isabelle hopes to publish her first book soon.

Second Prize - French
Denis McCready - Retour de Sarajevo, à la première personne

Denis McCready, who grew up in the Plateau Mont-Royal district of Montreal, studied cinema at Concordia University. A production manager, he has shot on location in many different countries and has also traveled widely for his photography. He is interested in writing and is currently working on a book about his travels in Bosnia, illustrated with his own photos.