Gray, Burrows, and Wild win Arthur Ellis Awards

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The Arthur Ellis Award winners were announced last night, May 28, 2015, at a special awards ceremony held at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto. Among the winners were Charlotte Gray, Steve Burrows, and Elle Wild.

Charlotte Gray won Best Nonfiction Book for The Massey Murder: A Maid, her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country (HarperCollins)

Steve Burrows won Best First Novel for A Siege of Bitterns (Dundurn Press)

Elle Wild won the Unhanged Arthur for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel for Strange Things Done

Congratulations to all the winners! And congratulations to all nominees, it was a fantastic shortlist!

 

Renzetti, Fu, Islam, and Burrows shortlisted for Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

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Westwood is proud to announce that Elizabeth Renzetti, Kim Fu, Ghalib Islam, and Steve Burrows have been nominated for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize!

The annual award, designed to kick-start the careers of debut authors, will award a $10,000 CAD cash prize to a book in each of three categories: Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction (beginning with Mystery this year), and Non-Fiction.

Our authors have been nominated in the following categories:

Literary Fiction

Fiction (Mystery)

The shortlist, selected by Kobo’s team of booksellers and taking into consideration book completion rates, customer ratings and reviews, comprises five books in each genre. The shortlist will now move on to the final selection process, led by top Canadian authors: Charlotte Gray for Non-Fiction, Miriam Toews for Literary Fiction, and Ian Hamilton for Genre Fiction (Mystery), with winners announced on July 7.

For the complete shortlist, click here.