Montreal, July 9, 2012 – CBC’s Canada Writes, the online literary destination part of CBC Books, with its partners the Canada Council for the Arts, Air Canada's enRoute magazine and The Banff Centre, announced today the finalists for the CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize / Prix du récit Radio-Canada.
The 5 English and 5 French texts were selected from over 3,000 stories that were received from across the country.
The 5 English-language finalists are (alphabetically):
- Leslie Beckmann of North Vancouver, BC for “Fingerling”
- Hilary Dean of Toronto, ON for “Holy Bald-Headed”
- Cornelia Hoogland of Hornby Island for “Sea Level”
- Judy McFarlane of Vancouver, BC for “After, and Before”
- Brendan McLeod of Vancouver, BC for “Psychosomatic”
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