CAA Awards Events

Readings by Awards Winners | CAA Awards Dinner | Keynote Address | Ticket Information

CAA Awards at the Leacock Summer Festival

Literary Readings by Shortlisted Authors

Three shortlisted authors read from their works prior to announcing the winners.

Awards Dinner & Awards Presentations

The 2011 CAA Literary Awards winners were announced at the CAA Awards Dinner where Tomson Highway gave the keynote address.

All events will be held during the Leacock Summer Festival at the Leacock Museum National Historic Site in Orillia, Ontario.

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Ticket information for the Awards Dinner is located below.

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Literary Awards Readings by Shortlisted Authors

Saturday, July 23 1:00 p.m.

Readings by shortlisted authors from the Canadian Authors Association 2011 Literary Awards including: Shelagh D. Grant, Dr. Stuart Houston and Julia Mccarthy.

Date: Saturday, July 23, 2011, 1:00 to 2:30 pm
Where: Leacock Museum National Historic Site, Orillia, Ontario
MC: Matthew Bin, National President, Canadian Authors Association
Cost: Free! Book sales and signings will follow.

Shelagh D. Grant, Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America
Dr. Stuart Houston, Tommy's Team: The People Behind the Douglas Years
Julia McCarthy, Return to Erebus

Author Bios

Shelagh D. Grant is the author of the Clio Award-winning Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet 1923; Sovereignty or Security? Government Policy in the Canadian North, 1936–1950; and more recently, Mittimatalik-Pond Inlet: A History, translated into Inuktitut. She is an adjunct professor in the Canadian Studies Program and research associate of the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies at Trent University, and she lives in Peterborough, Ontario.

Stuart Houston received his MD from Manitoba in 1951, his Fellowship in Diagnostic Radiology in 1964, his DLitt Saskatchewan, 1987; Saskatchewan Order of Merit, 1992; and Officer, Order of Canada, 1993. He is Professor Emeritus of Medical Imaging, University of Saskatchewan and is a past-president of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine. He co-edited over a hundred health entries for the best-selling Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan for the centennial year, 2005. Tommy's Team: The People Behind the Douglas Years, with co-author U of S History Professor Bill Waiser, is his 12th book; it was preceded by biographies of Dr. T.A. Patrick in 1980 and of Dr. R.G. Ferguson in 1991, and Steps on the Road to Medicare in 2002.

Julia McCarthy is originally from Toronto. She spent ten years living in the United States, most notably Alaska and Georgia. She has also lived in Norway and spent significant time in South Africa. Her previous collection of poetry, Stormthrower, was published by Wolsak and Wynn in 2002. She now resides in Nova Scotia where she works as a freelance writer and editor. Return from Erebus is her second poetry collection.

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Literary Awards Dinner & Awards Presentations

With Tomson Highway

Founded in 1921, with Stephen Leacock as a founding member, the Canadian Authors Association presents its annual Literary Awards 2011 including the CAA Poetry Award, the Lela Common Award for Canadian History, the CAA Award for Fiction and the Emerging Writer Award.

Date: Saturday, July 23^rd.
Time: Mix ‘n Mingle: 6:00 p.m. | Dinner: 7:00 p.m.
Where:
- Swanmore Hall (Catered by Swanmore Terrace)
- Leacock Museum National Historic Site
- Orillia, Ontario
Cost:
- $40 incl. dinner (mix & mingle with the authors, awards presentations & keynote speech)
- $10 Awards & Keynote only

Ticket information | View the CAA Awards poster
Cash bar / door prizes / book sales & signings

Announcement of Winning Authors/Titles & Presentation of Prizes

See the 2011 Awards Shortlists for the finalists in each of these categories:

Emerging Writer Award
CAA Poetry Award
Lela Common Award for Canadian History
CAA Award for Fiction

Keynote Address

The 2011 keynote speaker is Tomson Highway.

Tomson Highway was born in a snow bank on the Manitoba/Nunavut border to a family of nomadic caribou hunters. He had the great privilege of growing up in two languages, neither of which was French or English; they were Cree, his mother tongue, and Dene, the language of the neighbouring "nation," a people with whom they roamed and hunted.

Today, he enjoys an international career as playwright, novelist, and pianist/songwriter. His best known works are the plays, The Rez Sisters, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Rose, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout, and the best-selling novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen. For many years, he ran Canada's premiere Native theatre company, Native Earth Performing Arts (based in Toronto), out of which has emerged an entire generation of professional Native playwrights, actors and, more indirectly, the many other Native theatre companies that now dot the country.

He divides his year equally between a cottage in northern Ontario (near Sudbury, from whence comes his partner of 25 years) and a seaside apartment in the south of France, at both of which locales he is currently at work on his second novel.

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Ticket Information

For Tickets

Tickets are available from the Leacock Museum National Historic Site:

705 329 1908
www.leacockmuseum.com
Leacock Museum National Historic Site
50 Museum Drive, Orillia, ON L3V 6K5

For Information

Contact the CAA National Office for more information:

705 719 3926 or 1 866 216 6222 (Toll free)

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Questions?

Call 1 866 216 6222 or 705 653 0323, or email .

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