news | Friday November 22, 2024
Two Talonbooks authors have won Writers’ Trust Literary Prizes! Filmmaker, multimedia artist, and author of multiple plays including Iron Peggy and Burning Vision Marie Clements has won the Matt Cohen Award which honours a lifetime of impactful creative work.
Rita Wong, author of beholden: a poem as long as the river, won the Latner Griffin Award given to a mid-career poet who has demonstrated poetic excellence.
Read about all of the winners of the Writers’ Trust literary prizes here. Congratulations, Marie and Rita! Well-deserved wins!