The Creative Nonfiction Collective (CNFC) announced the winner of its second Readers’ Choice Award at a ceremony at The Banff Centre on Saturday, April 24, 2010. After readings from the works of seven Canadian nonfiction authors, the members of the CNFC, a national writers’ organization, voted to name Susan Olding as winner at the annual Readers’ Choice Awards.
Olding, a writer and teacher in Kingston, Ontario, won for her essays from Pathologies (Freehand). As part of the CNFC’s annual conference in Banff, Olding accepted the award in person after being chosen from a short list of seven 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:
- Wade Davis for The Wayfarers (Anansi)
- Sharron Proulx-Turner for her essay from Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
- Paul Nicklen for Polar Obsession (Focal Point)
- Shawna Lemay for Calm Things (Palimpsest)
- Kaitlin Fontana for “The Flight Album” (in The Walrus)
- Eufemia Fantetti for “Alphabet Autobiografica” (in Event)
The CNFC congratulates Olding and the other nominees of the annual Readers’ Choice Awards. Watch this space for details about how to nominate and vote for the 2011 awards.
