Current Award Winners

The 2010 winner is Michael Crummey, St. John's, for Galore (Doubleday Canada). Prize: $2500 and a silver medal.

Michael Crummey is the author of three books of poetry and a book of short stories, Flesh and Blood. His first novel, River Thieves, was a finalist for the 2001 Giller Prize, and his following novel, The Wreckage, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Galore, Crummey's highly anticipated third novel, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in the Caribbean and Canada region. He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.

The 2010 winner is Jonathan F. Vance, London, for A History of Canadian Culture (Oxford University Press). Prize: $2500 and a silver medal.

Jonathan Vance holds the Canada Research Chair in Conflict and Culture in the Department of History at The University of Western Ontario. His books and articles include Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War (1997), High Flight: Aviation and the Canadian Imagination (2002), and Building Canada: People and Projects that Shaped the Nation (2006). He is currently exploring a new project on regional enlistment rates in Canada during the Great War. Jonathan Vance lives in London, Ontario.

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

The 2010 winner is Michael Nathanson, Winnipeg, for Talk (Playwrights Canada Press). Prize: $2500 and a silver medal.

Michael Nathanson began his career acting on television at age thirteen. More recently, his focus has been on writing. As a playwright, Michael's work has been seen in New York, Dallas, and at festivals across Canada. At home, Michael has written for Theatre Projects Manitoba, CBC radio, and the University of Winnipeg. In the past few years he also created and wrote two original, animated, fifty-episode internet-based series for Little Fox, Korea. As a director, his credits include Little, Right For It, To Kill the Weatherman, and The Resurrection of John Frum. Michael is the Artistic Producer of Winnipeg Jewish Theatre and a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. Michael lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The 2010 winner is Tom Dawe, Conception Bay South, for Where Genesis Begins (Breakwater Books Ltd.). Prize: $1000 and a silver medal.

Born in Long Pond, Newfoundland, Tom Dawe has been a teacher, professor of English (Memorial University), visual artist, editor, writer and poet. His work includes poetry, fiction, dramatic script, folklore and children's literature. He is also one of the founding members of Breakwater Books Ltd. and TickleAce magazine. Winner of many awards and honours in arts and letters, he was recently awarded honourary membership in the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador and induction into Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Hall of Honour. Dawe lives in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland.

This award is made possible through the generosity of BookLand Press.

The 2010 winner is Rachelle Delaney, Vancouver, for The Ship of Lost Souls (Harper Collins Canada). Prize: $500 and a silver medal.

Rachelle Delaney was born in Edmonton and has worked as a freelance writer, editor and book reviewer for Canadian magazines and newspapers, including Nature Canada and the Edmonton Journal. The Ship of Lost Souls is her first novel. She has received the Grant MacEwan Young Writers’ Scholarship, the Larry Turner Award and the Bissenden Scholarship for creative writing. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Visit www.rachelledelaney.com.

The Allan Sangster Award honours one of the CAA's own members for extraordinary service to the Association. Learn more about this award and its history

The 2010 winner is Walter McConville, Victoria.

Walter McConville has been a mainstay of the Victoria & Islands Branch for many years and is known as a great entertainer at CAA conferences — the organizer/promoter of a fun songbook for use at these annual events. A past Victoria & Islands Branch newsletter editor, archivist, and vice president, Walt also tutored a CAA members' poetry group, organized/promoted branch members' collections and composed "Canauthword" crossword puzzles for the CAA National Newsline for a number of years. He has written seven books, two plays (which he also staged and directed) and over 500 poems, technical articles and short stories published in Canada, Peru, the U.K., and U.S.A. He wrote and directed musical skits for the 1993 and 1995 national conferences in Vancouver and Victoria.