CBC reporter from B.C. among nominees for best short fiction
Last Updated: Thursday, May 7, 2009 | 11:49 AM ET
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Toronto writer Pasha Malla and Betsy Trumpener, a CBC reporter and radio producer from Prince George, B.C., are among five authors nominated for the Danuta Gleed Award.
The Writers' Union of Canada released a list of nominees for the $10,000 award for short fiction on Thursday.
Malla is author of The Withdrawal Method and Trumpener of The Butcher of Penetang.
Also nominated are:
- Ian Colford of Halifax for Evidence.
- Rebecca Rosenblum of Hamilton, Ont., for Once.
- Ahmad Saidullah of Ottawa for Happiness and other Disorders.
All are debut authors.
Malla wrote The Withdrawal Method over a five-year period, while simultaneously working on a poetry collection, All Our Grandfathers Are Ghosts.
Trumpener has been writer in residence at CBC Radio's North by Northwest and had fiction published in the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, This Magazine, the Malahat Review, Event, the Queen Street Quarterly and Northword.
Saidullah's short story Happiness And Other Disorders won second prize in the 2005 CBC Literary Awards.
Rosenblum won the Metcalf/Rooke award, which led to publication of her book, and was also a nominee for the Journey Prize for short fiction.
The winner will be announced in Calgary on May 23.
John Gleed sponsors the award for first-time writers in memory of his late wife, Danuta, whose first collection of short fiction, One of the Chosen, was published posthumously.
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