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University of Victoria graduate Bren Simmers is the winner of the 2022 CBC Poetry Prize. Simmers, who worked at the university’s library while studying to receive her undergraduate degree, won for her poem Spell World Backwards .
Bren Simmers' Spell World Backwards crowned champ out of 2200 entries
She will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and will also attend a writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Three writers with ties to B.C. make the shortlist for prestigious writing award
Fourth-year writing student from Toronto received the nod for From the Mouth