The 1st Book Competition, a national literary competition sponsored by the Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University in celebration of its tenth anniversary (which I happen to be coordinating), has selected our long list of manuscripts from over 200 entries. They are:

Creative Nonfiction

• Myrl Coulter, Birthmother (Edmonton, AB)
• Nadine DeLisle, Mother of a Son (Winnipeg, MB)
• Laura Fee, Clear Margins (Vancouver, BC)
• John Goossens, To Lain Roads (Dartmouth, NS)
• Jesse Kaellis, Early Out (New Westminster, BC)
• Janice Redford, Remember the Lilac (Garibaldi Highlands, BC)
• Hollie Smith, Evolution of a Scallywag: Crazy for Carcross (Surrey, BC)
• Lisa Smith, Our Friend Joe (Vancouver, BC)
• Ayelet Tsabari, You and What Army (Toronto, ON)

Fiction

• Jackie Bateman, Nondescript Rambunctious (Vancouver, BC)
• Megan Findlay, Lockburn Steady (Ottawa, ON)
• Bruce Johnston, Sandorsen's Penumbra (Surrey, BC)
• Linda McNamara, Loon Song (Minden, ON)
• Kathleen Miller, Travellers at the Pass (Royston, BC)
• Kathy Para, Testament (Gibsons, BC)
• Jana Rieger, A Course in Deception (Edmonton, AB)
• Cecile Ryder, The Giraffe and Other Stories (North Vancouver, BC)
• Mark Victor Young, Henry on the Fifth (London, ON)

Poetry

• Lawrence Feuchtwanger, Nostoi: Fragments (Vancouver, BC)
• Sheenak Gillies, Under the Influence (Vancouver, BC)
• Aisha Sasha John, The Shining Material (Toronto, ON)
• Leah Laxdal, Apron Bee (Saskatoon, SK)
• Jane Mellor, Tunes Over-Easy: A Book of Poetry and Lyric Prose (San Francisco, CA)
• Sheila Rosen, The Whole Shebang (Burnaby, BC)
• Deena Shaffer, The Grey Tote (Toronto, ON)
• Rachel Thompson, Galaxy (Vancouver, BC)
• Ella Zeltserman, By Plane (Edmonton, AB)

The three winning, book-length manuscripts written by Canadian writers, who've never before published a book, will be published by Vancouver's Anvil Press in 2011. The winners will be announced October 24, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in Waterfront Theatre as part of the emerge launch with the Vancouver International Writers Festival.

The contest judges are Mark Anthony Jarman for fiction; Karen Connelly for creative nonfiction; and Gregory Scofield for poetry.

Congratulations to all of our long-listed authors!