Drama Award

CAA Carol Bolt Award

Award History - Award Details - Entry Information - Winners

History

The CAA Awards for Adult Literature

The CAA administers several awards for full-length English-language literature for adults by authors who are Canadians or landed immigrants "honouring writing that achieves excellence without sacrificing popular appeal."

For more information about these awards, please see the History of the CAA Writing Awards page.

The CAA Carol Bolt Award

About the Award

The Canadian Authors Association (CAA) Carol Bolt Award is for the best English-language play for adults by an author who is a Canadian or landed immigrant. All entries must have been first published (singly or in a collection) or performed in the year prior to the award. If performed, the working script for the production must be submitted. Publication or performance may have taken place outside Canada. Winners will receive $1,000 and a silver medal. Previous winners of the award or of the former CAA Award for Drama (given from 1976 to 1999) are not eligible. Reprints, translations and posthumous entries are not eligible. A play may be entered only once, either when first produced, or first published.

Award Sponsor

This award is made possible through the generosity of the Playwrights Guild of Canada and Playwrights Canada Press.

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Entry Information

The nominations deadline is December 15th each year. Entries should be postmarked by that date, except for works published after December 1st, in which case they must be postmarked no later than January 15th in the following year.

The Writing Awards Guidelines contains specific entry information, or you may contact Alec McEachern at the CAA National Office.

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CAA Carol Bolt Award Winners

2002 Kent Stetson - The Harps of God
2003 Daniel Goldfarb - Adam Baum and the Jew Movie
2004 Florence Gibson - Home is My Road
2005 Mieko Ouchi - The Red Priest (Eight Ways To Say Goodbye)
2006 John Mighton - Half Life
2007 Stephen Massicotte - The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion
2008 Colleen Murphy - The December Man (l'homme de décembre)

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