WANL: Press release 18Apr2006
Apr 18th, 2006 press release

Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland & Labrador announces finalists for the 2006 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards

The Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador today announced the shortlists for the 2006 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards. This year the awards honour artistic excellence in Newfoundland literature in the categories of Fiction, sponsored by Bennington Gate Bookstore, and Children's Literature, sponsored by The Bruneau Family.

Shortlisted writers and their books

The Bruneau Family Children's Literature Award:
Ed Kavanagh for Amanda Greenleaf: the complete adventures (Flanker Press, 2005)
Kevin Major for Aunt Olga's Christmas Postcards (House of Anansi Press, 2005)
Janet McNaughton for Brave Jack and the Unicorn (Tundra Books, 2005)

Bennington Gate Fiction Award:
Joan Clark for An Audience of Chairs (Knopf Canada, 2005)
Michael Crummey for The Wreckage (Doubleday Canada, 2005)
Lisa Moore for Alligator (House of Anansi Press, 2005)

The judges for the Fiction category were Eleanor Dawson, Douglas Hill and Mark Anthony Jarman. The judges for the Children's Literature category were Marnie Parsons, Trudy Morgan-Cole and Calvin Butt.

First presented in 1997, this is the tenth consecutive year for these provincial literary awards. This year a special event will take place on May 18th, 2006 at The Rooms, where past winners will be honoured and this year's winners will be announced. The two winners will each receive a cash prize of $1,500 and, for the first time, each runner-up will receive $500.

The Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards are administered by the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador. They are financed by corporate and private sponsors. 		Media contact:

Libby Creelman
Executive Director
Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador
Tel: 709-739-5215
The Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador operates with funds raised from membership dues, fundraising activities, corporate and private sponsorship, and with the financial support of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, City of St John's, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador through the Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, which the Alliance gratefully acknowledges.
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