The annual awards were delayed from their traditional fall timing because of complications around COVID-19.
GG Winners Circle: The Fan Brothers (Young people’s literature – illustrated book)
“To win an award for our first official collaboration was pretty special.”
GG Winners Circle: Michelle Good (English-language fiction)
“More hearts and minds will have the opportunity to consider what I’m trying to say in this book.”
GG Winners Circle: Madhur Anand (Nonfiction)
“My heart wasn’t quite ready to hear it. It still isn’t.”
GG Winners Circle: Eric Walters (Young people’s literature – text)
“This book is so much a part of who I am.”
Rights Deals: Minelle Mahtani, Matthew R. Morris, and Hal Niedzviecki
Illustrated fantasy press Eye of Newt Books channels forgotten mythology and the childhood library of its co-publishers
Michelle Good wins $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
“We can not ever forget it happened, just like we can never forget the holocaust, we can never forget 9/11,” Good said in her acceptance speech.
Rights Deals: Susan Juby, Derrick Chow + 11 more
Jack Wang wins Danuta Gleed for debut short-fiction collection
Runners-up will each receive $1,000.
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