CNFC Readers’ Choice Awards
At this year’s Vancouver conference, we’ll be hosting the third annual Creative Nonfiction Collective’s Readers’ Choice Awards. We hope this event will be a fun, festive, informal opportunity to share some of our favourite reading moments of the last two years, and celebrate the work of fellow Canadian authors of creative nonfiction.
Eligibility:
The award is based on the following criteria. Your choice must be:
- A Canadian writer of creative nonfiction.
- Not a member of the CNFC board (e.g., Myrna Kostash, Cathy Ostlere, Betsy Warland, Claire Festel, David Leach, Christin Geall, Anne Atkey, Lynne Bowen, Alisa Gordaneer, Andreas Schroeder, Monica Meneghetti, Darlene Chrapko).
- Preferably a writer who didn’t win a nonfiction major book award. (We’re looking to acknowledge the otherwise unacknowledged.)
- Based on an excerpt of excellent writing from a book, article or essay published in any medium during the past two years
Selection Process (for Conference Attendees)
- Any CNFC member can nominate an author who meets the Eligibility criteria above.
- Submit his or her name, plus the title of the book or essay, to cgrg@mac.com (not to the list). If you can’t attend the conference, you will need to submit a short excerpt to be read at the awards ceremony.
- The first 10 nominations received will form the short list—so send your choices ASAP!
- Conference attendees whose nominees make this short list will be notified and should come to UBC prepared to give a brief (less than a minute) introduction to the author, the book or other publication, explain why you chose the particular passage, and then read the selected excerpt (two minutes maximum) to our gathering.
- Feel free to suggest a witty title for the award you think your writer deserves (e.g., Most Memorable Memoir, The Putting the ‘Literary’ in Literary Journalism Award, Metaphor of the Year, etc.).
Best In Show Award
- On the evening of Wednesday, May 23rd, we’ll pass out ballots to our attending members before the event begins.
- Conference attendees will vote on for their favourite writer or passage of the evening.
- We will tabulate results and bestow a “Best in Show” award upon the nominee with the most votes—and raise another glass in her or his honour!
- After the conference, all the nominees and the Best in Show winner (as well as some media outlets) will be contacted and apprised of these ceremonial awards (who wouldn’t love to hear that their words had been publicly celebrated at a gathering of writers?) and we’ll post names and titles of the writers on our website.
Questions
- Feel free to send your questions to Christin Geall: cgrg@mac.com.