![]() ![]() Yohani Mendis was longlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize.ĭuring our last annual update, we were able to share the news of graduate-and now incoming MFA Faculty member-Canisia Lubrin’s Windham Campbell Prizeand O CM BOCAS Prize wins. Zoe Whittall’s internationally acclaimed The Spectacular nabbed a spot on the CBC Best Books of 2021 list, and Chris Bailey’s fiction was included in Best Canadian Short Stories 2021. was a Governor General’s Award fiction finalist, as well as an Amazon First Novel Award finalist, along with Jael Richardson’s Gutter Child (also a CBC Best Book of 2021, and year-end overall National Bestseller). ![]() Emily Kellogg co-created the popular horror-fiction podcast Parkdale Haunt, and Rebeccah Love’s short film, Parlour Palm, became available on CBC Gem.Ĭurrent MFA candidate Deepa Rajagopalan won this year’s RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award for her short story, “Peacocks of Instagram.” Sheung-King’s You Are Eating an Orange. Menon, presented theatre works both virtually and in-person. also performed at a number of festivals this year, while playwrights Robert Chafe, Anna Chatterton, Christopher Duthie, Natasha Greenblatt, and Radha S. Alumni Eufemia Fantetti and Ayelet Tsabari were also co-editors of-and contributors to- Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language, an anthology which features essays by fellow MFA grads Sahar Golshan and Janet Hong, among others. We welcomed new novels from Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Sophie McCreesh, Jael Richardson, Zoe Whittall, and David Whitton a memoir from Hollay Ghadery and poetry collections from David Bradford, Liz Howard, Sheniz Janmohamed, and Bardia Sinaee. While our ever-growing alumni list makes it impossible to account for all MFA community achievements, we always try to capture some annual highlights to share…įirstly, congratulations to those who published books in 2021 (which you can learn more about and order directly through the links provided in the author’s names).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |