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Writers from Vancouver, Victoria, Moose Jaw win ReLit awards

Last Updated: Thursday, July 19, 2007 | 11:40 AM ET

CBC Arts

Vancouver writer Ivan E. Coyote, Moose Jaw, Sask.-based poet Daniel Scott Tysdal and Victoria's Bill Gaston have won ReLit awards.

The winners of the honours for books by independent Canadian publishers were announced Wednesday.

Ivan E. Coyote's first novel Bow Grip has won the ReLit prize for fiction published by independent Canadian publishers.
(Arsenal Pulp Press)

Coyote, a first-time novelist who has published short stories, won the best novel award for Bow Grip, about the emotional journey of a small-town mechanic whose wife has left him.

Gaston won for Gargoyles, a collection of 12 short stories that also earned him a Governor General's Award nomination. He was also a Giller nominee for an earlier short story collection, Mount Appetite.

Tysdal won for Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method, his first book of poetry that also won the John V. Hicks Award. Tysdal was also a finalist in CBC's 2005 National Poetry Face-Off.

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