2021 Alberta Literary Awards Finalists
The Writers’ Guild of Alberta is excited to announce the finalists for the 2021 Alberta Literary Awards and Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize and for The 2020 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. Each year, the Alberta Literary Awards, the City of Edmonton and The City of Calgary recognize and celebrate the highest standards of literary excellence from Alberta authors. The WGA would like to send our congratulations to those whose work is among this year’s finalists! We look forward to celebrating your creativity and hard work, and we will do all we can to spread the word about the wonderful writing you did in 2020. Details for the upcoming Virtual Readings with the Finalists and the Alberta Literary Awards Gala will be posted on our website and social media. Details for the presentation of The City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize will be available at calgary.ca/calgaryawards. Our juries deliberated on more than 250 submissions to select the following 30 finalists in ten categories. Finalists represent excellence in literary work written by Alberta authors and published or created in 2020. We encourage you to check out these fantastic titles!
The Silence Slips In
My Mommy, My Mama, My Brother, and Me
These Are the Things We Found By the Sea
Boxitects
The Response of Weeds
A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies
I Know Something You Don't Know
Relax, Dammit!
A User's Guide to the Age of Anxiety
One Game at a Time
My Journey from Small-Town Alberta to Hockey's Biggest Stage
Storying Violence
Unravelling Colonial Narratives In The Stanley Trial
Always Brave, Sometimes Kind
A Novel
The Finder
A Novel
And This Is the Cure
Like Rum-Drunk Angels
Taken by the Muse
On the Path to becoming a Filmmaker
