The Creative Nonfiction Collective (CNFC) announced the winner of its third Readers’ Choice Award at a ceremony at The Banff Centre on Saturday, April 30, 2011. After readings from the works of three nominated Canadian nonfiction authors, the members of the CNFC, a national writers’ organization, voted to name Eve Joseph as winner at the annual Readers’ Choice Awards.
Joseph, a poet and author in Brentwood Bay, B.C., won for her personal essay “Intimate Strangers” from the Winter 2010 issue of The Malahat Review. As part of the CNFC’s annual conference in Banff, Joseph’s work was chosen from a short list of three nominees, whose work demonstrates the stylistic and thematic range of Canadian creative nonfiction published in books and periodicals over the past two years.
The other nominees were:
- Charles Foran for Mordecai: Life and Times (Knopf)
- Ayelet Tsbari for “Warplanes” from Grain
- The CNFC congratulates Joseph and the other nominees of the annual
- Readers’ Choice Awards. Previous winners have been Susan Olding for
- Pathologies (2010) and Theresa Kishkan for Phantom Limb (2009).
Watch this space for details about how to nominate and vote for the 2011 awards.