Klondike, a six hour television mini-series based on Charlotte Gray’s 2010 bestseller Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike, will be broadcast on the Discovery Channel in January, 2014. A $25 million production, it stars Sam Shepard, Abbie Cornish, Tim Roth and Richard Madden.

To get a sneak preview of the series, please visit: http://klondike-history.discovery.com/

Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike was published in Canada by HarperCollins and in the US by Counterpoint.

WCA is thrilled to announce that Graeme Smith has won the third annual Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for excellence in non-fiction. The $60,000 prize is Canada’s richest annual award for non-fiction. Smith received the prize on Monday evening at a ceremony in Toronto for his memoir The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan.

Please join me in congratulating Richard Wagamese for winning the Burt Award for First Nations, Metis and Inuit Literature. The award recognizes outstanding literary works for young adults written by First Nations, Métis and Inuit authors. Richard Wagamese received the first prize of $12,000 for Indian Horse (published by Douglas and McIntyre ), and will have 2,500 copies delivered to First Nations, Métis and Inuit youth across Canada.

More information about the prize can be found here:  http://www.codecan.org/burt-award/news/canada/richard-wagamese-wins-burt-award-first-nations-m%C3%A9tis-and-inuit-literature-fir

The nominees for the Governor General’s Literary Awards were announced on Wednesday, and WCA is proud to have three authors on the list:

Shyam Selvadurai for THE HUNGRY GHOSTS (fiction category)

Priscila Uppal for PROJECTION (non-fiction category)

Matt James for NORTHWEST PASSAGE (children’s literature – illustration category)

The winners will be announced on November 13 in Toronto. For more information, please visit: http://ggbooks.canadacouncil.ca/