Francesca Ekwuyasi, Michelle Good among finalists for First Novel Award
Finalists have been announced for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Each finalist will receive $6,000 and the winner will receive $60,000. The ceremony will be held on May 27 in a virtual ceremony hosted by Jennifer Hollett, the executive director of
The Walrus, and will feature guest speaker Lawrence Hill.
The finalists include the first major awards nod for Flying Books, which was recognized for its first publication, Marlowe Granados’s
Happy Hour. HarperCollins has two nominations, as does Vancouver independent Arsenal Pulp Press. Two of the finalists, Francesca Ekwuyasi and Michelle Good, were also announced as finalists for the Governor General’s Literary Award on May 4.
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Photo courtesy of Brooke Matson.
Brooke Matson is a Spokane-based poet and book artist whose latest collection, In Accelerated Silence
, explores the intersections of Big Science (think astrophysics) and Big Feeling (think grief and resilience). Both philosophical and grounded in the elements and the body, these poems read like missives from a starry night, when the body feels alive and the mind contemplative.
Hum by Jamaal May: Maybe because I read it on my first writing residency, May’s first full collection showcases his talent for word choice, rhythm, and creativity on the page. You can almost feel him pushing the boundaries of each poem in terms of structure, perspective, imagery, or all of them at once. The word choice is so spot-on that many of the poems take on a texture or resonant quality (as the title of the book implies). Needless to say, these poems inspired me to experiment during my residency and I still return to the poems often. Some have become downright impr