Shortlist announced for annual writing awards
Also being presented this year is the Champion of Reading Award and the Prince Edward Island Book Awards
The P.E.I. Writers’ Guild has announced the shortlist for the Island Literary Awards and the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty Creative Writing Awards for Young People.
Island writers will be recognized during award galas, which will take place online in the coming weeks.
For the Island Literary Awards, adults will be recognized for excellence in poetry, creative non-fiction, literature for children, short story and Indigenous writing.
Following are the shortlisted writers for adult categories:
The Heirs of L.M. Montgomery Literature for Children Award: Eric Leamont; Gretha Rose; Hannah Stiff; Ian Stretch; Jessica Mutch.
Confederation Court Mall Merchants Association Poetry Award: Emily Browning; Emily Cann; Kelly Kieran Sampson; Megan
Gallant; Nick vanOuwerkerk. Maritime Electric Short Story Award: Chris Wilson; Jennifer Platts-Fanning; Katie Mac.
Creative Non-Fiction Award: Ivy Wigmore; Kelly Kieran Sampson; Mark Enman; Matthew Sherman; Samantha Desjardins Joyc.
Acorn Press Marie Coyoteblanc Indigenous Writing Award: Michael Sima; Richard Pellissier-Lush.
Réshard Gool Award for Creative Writing – Monika
Stewart.
Joseph Sherman Award
– Dan and Marlene MacDonald.
Distinguished Contribution to the Literary Arts
of P.E.I. – Rob MacLean and Melissa Mullen.
Youth in early elementary, late elementary, junior high and senior high will be honoured for their excellence in literary arts during the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty Creative Writing Awards for Young People.
Short-listed writers for the youth categories are
as follows: Early elementary - Ben
Bowman. Late elementary: Alyson Scott; Elle Flick; Juliette Martinez-Kydd; Lauren Elizabeth Graham; Sam Bowman.
Junior high: Eleena Lunn; Jordan Dingwell; Khai Phan; Sheamus Herlihy; Vy Nguyen Tran.
Senior High: Arielle Dunn; Marley Lucas; Megan Gallant.
This year, the P.E.I. Writers’ Guild is accepting nominations for the Champion of Reading Award.
This award recognizes an individual in the community who champions reading as being essential to the quality of people’s lives and to their ability to take their place on the world stage.
Previous winners of the Champion of Reading Award include Deirdre Kessler (2019), Barb Kissick (2018), Roseanne Gauthier (2017) and Jinny Greaves (2016).