Contests

2022 Novella Prize Judges

Rebecca Păpucaru

Rebecca PăpucaruRebecca Păpucaru's short story “Yentas” won The Malahat Review's 2020 Novella Prize and was the editors’ selection for the 2021 National Magazine Awards. Short fiction has appeared in Grain and EVENT, and has been shortlisted for the Penguin Random House Canada Student Award for Fiction. Her first book, The Panic Room (Nightwood Editions) was awarded the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry and was also a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She is this close to completing her first collection of short fiction, and is currently seeking a forever home for her first novel, As Good a Place as Any.

Look for an interview with Rebecca in our upcoming December newsletter.

 

Alix Hawley

Alix HawleyAlix Hawley studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Oxford University, the University of East Anglia, and the University of British Columbia. Her story collection, The Old Familiar (Thistledown Press), was longlisted for the ReLit award. Several pieces have won accolades from the CBC: "Witching" won the 2017 Literary Awards Short Story Prize, while "Tentcity" and  "Jumbo" were runners-up in 2012 and 2014, and "Pig (For Oma)" won the 2014 Bloodlines memoir contest. Her first novel, All True Not a Lie in It, was published by Knopf as its New Face of Fiction pick for 2015. It was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and won the Amazon.ca / Walrus First Novel Award and BC Book Prize for Fiction. My Name is a Knife, one of Esi Edugyan's picks for the year, was published in 2018.

Look for an interview with Alix in our upcoming January newsletter.