Please join Westwood Creative Artists in congratulating WCA authors David Bergen and Michelle Berry, both shortlisted this week for the Manitoba Book Awards. Bergen’s The Matter with Morris, published by HarperCollins (Phyllis Bruce Books), was nominated for The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, while Berry’s I Still Don’t Even Know You, published by Turnstone Press, was nominated for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher. The awards ceremony will be held on April 17^th.

Please join Westwood Creative Artists in congratulating WCA authors Douglas Coupland, Zsuzsi Gartner, Jack Hodgins and Susin Nielsen, all nominated for 2011 BC Book Prizes. The specific nominations follow:

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

The Master of Happy Endings by Jack Hodgins (Thomas Allen Publishers)

Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

Marshall McLuhan by Douglas Coupland (Penguin Canada)

Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize

Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom by Susin Nielsen (Tundra Books)

Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award

Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow by Zsuzsi Gartner (editor) (Douglas & McIntyre)

Please join Westwood Creative Artists in congratulating WCA’s Matt James, Susin Nielsen and Robert Paul Weston, all shortlisted for CLA Awards. The specific nominations follow:

Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award

I Know Here / Illustrated by Matt James (Groundwood Books)

CLA Book of the Year for Children Award

Dear George Clooney Please Marry My Mom by Susin Nielsen (Tundra Books)

CLA Young Adult Book Award

Dust City by Robert Paul Weston (Puffin Canada)

Please join Westwood Creative Artists in congratulating WCA author Anna Porter, winner of the 2011 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for The Ghosts of Europe.

“…a gifted storyteller who shapes a historically consequential narrative…”
– from Jury Citation