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

Westwood Creative Artists is pleased to announce that Yann Martel’s Life of Pi and Thomas Trofimuk’s Waiting for Columbus have been included in Richard and Judy’s prestigious 100 Books of the Decade list. The popular British television personalities now host a virtual bookclub, and Waiting for Columbus was also one of its inaugural selections.

www.richardandjudy.co.uk/book-club-news/100-Books-of-the-decade/80

www.richardandjudy.co.uk/current-reads/Winter-2010/1

Please join Westwood Creative Artists in congratulating WCA author Charles Foran, winner of the 2011 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction for Mordecai: The Life & Times, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada.

“A fine, intelligent, deeply historicized, compassionate, insightful, fair-minded and above all loving book.”
– Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon, on Mordecai: The Life & Times.

For more information please visit the Charles Taylor Prize at:

www.thecharlestaylorprize.ca/latest-news.asp

Westwood Creative Artists would like to congratulate WCA authors Caroline Adderson (The Sky Is Falling) and Jack Hodgins (The Master of Happy Endings), who were both nominated today for a 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in the Best Book from Canada and the Caribbean category.