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 a 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 $2,500 and a silver medal. Previous winners of this award, or of the former CAA Award for Drama (given from 1976 to 1999), are eligible to be entered but not in the year immediately following their award.
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.
Entry Information
The Writing Awards Guidelines contains specific entry information, or you may contact the CAA National Office.
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)
- 2009 Vern Thiessen - Vimy
www.CanAuthors.org/awards/bolt.html
Updated: November 16, 2009
