The five finalists for the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing have been announced, and we are thrilled that WCA authors Margaret MacMillan, Paul Wells and Graeme Smith made the list. The winner will be announced in Ottawa on April 2, 2014, at the Politics and the Pen Gala.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.writerstrust.com/News/News-%281%29/Press-Release-Archive/Press-Releases/Shaughnessy-Cohen-Shortlist-Eng-%28Feb-4-2014%29.aspx

Margaret MacMillan for The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
Published by Allen Lane Canada

Graeme Smith for The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan,
Published by Knopf Canada

Paul Wells for The Longer I’m Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006
Published by Random House Canada

I’m pleased to announce that the following WCA titles have made the shortlist for the RBC Taylor Prize:

Charlotte Gray’s THE MASSEY MURDER
Thomas King’s THE INCONVENIENT INDIAN
Graeme Smith’s THE DOGS ARE EATING THEM NOW

The RBC Taylor Prize is awarded annually to the author whose book best combines an excellent command of the English language, an elegance of style, quality of thought, and subtlety of perception. The Prize consists of $25,000 for the winning author and $2,000 for each of the runners up.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.thecharlestaylorprize.ca/

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The 2014 shortlist for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction was announced today, and WCA is thrilled to have three authors on the list. The award carries a prize of $40,000.

This year’s finalists include:

Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

Margaret MacMillan’s The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914

Graeme Smith’s The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan

For more information, please visit:

http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/

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WCA is thrilled to announce that five WCA authors have been longlsted for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Congratulations to all!

Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace, Ronald J. Deibert, McClelland & Stewart

The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, and the Trial that Shocked a Country, Charlotte Gray, HarperCollins Canada

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, Thomas King, Doubleday Canada

The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, Margaret MacMillan, Penguin Canada

The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan, Graeme Smith, Knopf Canada

http://www.bcachievement.com/nonfiction/longlist.php

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Congratulations to Matt James, winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award (Children’s literature – illustration) for Northwest Passage (Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press).

The jury citiation follows:

Matt James’s unique illustrations set our imaginations soaring as they steer us through Stan Rogers’ famous ballad, Northwest Passage. The ink and acrylic paintings explode with raw effects and vivid colour, sometimes settling to small ice-blue vignettes. Each page is descriptive of the search that obsessed much of the world for hundreds of years.

For more information, please visit:

http://ggbooks.canadacouncil.ca/en/about-apropos/archives/2013/northwest%20passage

I’m pleased to report that Amazon.ca’s Top 100 Editors’ Picks of 2013 include:

Margaret MacMillan’s THE WAR THAT ENDED PEACE
Don Gillmor’s MOUNT PLEASANT
Shyam Selvadurai’s THE HUNGRY GHOSTS
Ann Johnston’s DRINK
Charlotte Gray’s THE MASSEY MURDER

Not to mention appearances in Best Books of the Year: History by:

Stephen J. Harper’s THE GREATEST GAME
Andrew Steinmetz’s THIS GREAT ESCAPE

Congratulations to all!

The longlist for the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award was just announced, and WCA is thrilled to have three authors represented on the list. To read about the nominated novels, please click on the author’s title below:

D.R MacDonald: Anna From Away (HarperCollins)

Ben Stephenson, A Matter of Life and Death or Something (D&M)

Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse (D&M)

Books on the longlist were nominated by libraries in 39 countries. The shortlist will be made public on April 9th, and the €100,000 winner revealed on June 12th.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/

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