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2021 Winners of the CODE Burt Awards for Indigenous YA literature announced!

The CODE Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Young Adult Literature is a Canadian literary award and readership initiative that recognizes excellence in Indigenous-authored literature for young adults.

Richard Van Camp won for Moccasin Square Gardens, a collection of humorous short fiction set in Denendeh, the land of the people north of the 60th parallel.

Michael Hutchinson's middle grade book The case for Windy Lake was named an Honour book in the English language category.

Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD)

The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) devotes their programming to the work of marginalized and underrepresented authors and storytellers and takes place annually in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.

Read the 2021 FOLD list Part 1

First Nation Communities Read - YA/Adult Nominees 2020

Book cover of Chasing painted horses with photo of author Drew Hayden Taylor

Chasing painted horses by Drew Hayden Taylor Winner!
Crow winter by Karen McBride
If I go missing by Brianna Jonnie Check at your public library!
In my own moccasins by Helen Knott
A mind spread out on the ground by Alicia Elliott

Governor General's Poetry Award 2020

Book cover of Norma Jeane Baker of Troy with photo of author

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson Winner!

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and soprano Renée Fleming and directed by Katie Mitchell.