The recipients of the inaugural awards recognizing self-published Canadian authors were announced at the 15th annual Whistler Writers Festival Oct. 13–16, as reported in Quill & Quire.
In the fiction category‚ Saskatchewan writer Byrna Barclay won for the novel House of the White Elephant; Albertan Miji Campbell won the non-fiction prize for Separation Anxiety: A Coming of Middle Age Story; Ontario writer Gerry Fostaty won the crime-fiction category for Stage Business; and in the poetry category‚ Alberta-based Gail Sidonie Sobat won for her collection How the Light Is Spent. Each author received a $500 prize.
