Congratulations to the authors and defenders of this year's Canada Reads Shortlist. CELA is pleased to have 4 of the 5 titles available in accessible format. Ducks, which is a graphic novel, is not currently available due to the long production time required to develop accessible versions of graphic novels.
The BC and Yukon Book Prizes celebrate the achievements of British Columbia and Yukon writers, illustrators and publishers. The prizes are presented annually at the BC and Yukon Book Prizes Gala and are administered and awarded by members of a non-profit society who represent all facets of the publishing and writing community.
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.
Winner for Published prose in English:
All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac
Winner for Published Graphic Novels, Comics, and Illustrated Books:
Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow by Aimée Craft
In this intimate collection of autobiographical essays, Canadian Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley delves into her past to illuminate powerful truths about post-traumatic memory, our relationship to the body, and how we tell our stories. Each of the literary essays in Run Towards the Danger captures a piece of Sarah’s life, as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality as it is constructed in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person you are now but were not then.
Read the 2022 winner of the Toronto Book Awards Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
