We are pleased to announce the Canadian Literature Best Essay Prize 2014 Shortlist. Each year, Canadian Literature recognizes and celebrates the best article published during the previous annual cycle. Nominees are selected from a pool of approximately 24 articles, and previous winners include Michel Nareau, Meredith Quartermain, Deanna Reder, Susan Gingell, Allison Hargreaves, Daniel Heath Justice, Kristina Bidwell, and Jo-Ann Episkenew.
Editor Margery Fee says:
We hope … to signal our eagerness to receive and recognize the best submissions in our field. We know that some readers are graduate students and junior academics looking for the best examples on which to model their own writing, and one goal of this award is to make it clear what our adjudicators (selected from the editorial team and the editorial board) think is the best. We know that to receive such an award from ones peers is always welcome, and we hope that the award will encourage those who win it to continue to produce their best writing.
The 2014 nominees are as follows:
- Jamieson, Sara.
‘Surprising Developments’: Midlife in Alice Munro’s Who Do You Think You Are?
Canadian Literature 217 (2013): 54–69. - McKegney, Sam.
‘pain, pleasure, shame. Shame’: Masculine Embodiment, Kinship, and Indigenous Reterritorialization.
Canadian Literature 216 (2013): 12–33. - Szabo, Lisa.
Adventures in Habitat: An Urban Story.
Canadian Literature 218 (2013): 67–84. - Williams, David.
Spectres of Time: Seeing Ghosts in Will Bird’s Memoirs and Abel Gance’s J’accuse
Canadian Literature 219 (2013): 113-30.
Congratulations to Sara Jamieson, Sam McKegney, Lisa Szabo, and David Williams on their excellent work. The winner will be announced at the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures reception at the Congress. Event details can be found at the University of Ottawa’s website.