Nightwood Editions

Living Things
Matt Rader

Forage
Rita Wong

The Lost Coast
Tim Bowling

Birch Split Bark
Diane Guichon

Muybridge's Horse
Rob Winger

O Canada Crosswords #8
Barbara Olson & Dave Macleod

The Rush to Here
George Murray

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Winger Shortlisted a Third Time!

Rob Winger's Muybridge's Horse was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and the 2007 Governor General's Award for Poetry. Now it has been shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award along with Elizabeth Hay, Frances Itani, Joanne Proulx and Mary Borsky. Congratulations Rob! (again)

Goodbye IV Lounge, We'll Miss You

George Murray was officially shortlisted for the Atlantic Poetry Prize for his new Nightwood collection The Rush to Here and unofficially shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Prize. He read in Ottawa August 26 at the Tree Reading Series.

He was scheduled to be back in Ontario September 12 to read in Toronto at the IV Lounge, but then the series got cancelled. Adam Getty had been scheduled to read there in September, too. Nightwood has had numerous authors read at the IV Lounge over the years and in fact this series has a very frequent backdrop to the early development of Nightwood's current incarnation. We're all going to miss it, and especially during a time of more cutbacks to cultural funding, so will the entire country.

Six Ways to Sunday Shortlisted for the ReLit
OK, so we're really late in "announcing" that Christian McPherson's Six Ways to Sunday was shortlisted for the ReLit Ring for Short Fiction. The fact is, we still hadn't finished making our way through the longlist yet by the time the shortlist came out. And now, winners have even been announced! No Six Ways, but Friend of Nightwood Gillian Wigmore won the Poetry Ring for Soft Geography. Congrats Gillian and congrats Christian!

Getty in Audio
Adam Getty's interview with Jennifer LoveGrove on In Other Words (CLKN, 88.1FM) is available as an MP3 download here. It does take awhile to download, and the interview with Adam doesn't start until about 11 minutes, 27 seconds. Thank you Jennifer and CLKN for doing this intreview and posting the MP3!

The Lost Coast Wins in Alberta!
Tim Bowling's The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture has won the Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction at the Alberta Book Prizes. It was also shortlisted for the prestigious Writers' Trust of Canada Non-fiction prize and the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional BC Book Prize, and longlisted for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-fiction. In addition, it has been selected as a 2008 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book. Also this year, Bowling received the Guggenheim Fellowship, one of North America’s most prestigious awards. Bowling is one of only three Canadians to receive the Fellowship, and the only Canadian writer.

Stiles Back in the UK, With Novel

Novelist, poet and filmmaker John Stiles read from his long-awaited new novel, Taking the Stairs, in Wolfville, St. Catharines, Fonthill, Niagara Falls, New York, Ottawa, Toronto and Halifax. Now he's back home in London, so the next best thing is to buy the book.

"Take My Book, Please"
Caught in the middle of a nation-wide debate over the hot topic of copyright, John Degen has unleashed a barrage of intellectual property that no one else could've ever dreamed up: his book. John's novel The Uninvited Guest, shortlisted for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award only last year, is now available as a FREE PDF at John's website. If you like enough of what you see to covet the real thing, you may, of course, purchase it right here through our distributor. John has written an essay on the release at The Globe & Mail.

Birch Split Bark Wins City
of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize

Diane Guichon has won the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, for her first poetry collection Birch Split Bark. Congratulations, Diane! Roberta Rees and Glen Dresser were the other nominees. The $5,000 prize will be presented at a ceremony on June 10.

Wong Wins BC Book Prize!

Rita Wong's new collection of poetry, Forage, has won the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize for Poetry. Congratulations Rita! Wong's new collection was reviewed by George Elliott Clarke as a "fierce achievement . . . a formidable fusion."

Nightwood Editions acknowledges financial support from
the Government of Canada through the Canada Council
for the Arts and the Book Publishing Industry Development
Program (BPIDP), and from the Province of British Columbia
through the BC Arts Council, for its publishing activities.

Shortlisted
Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award.

Shortlisted
2006 Governor General's Award

Shortlisted
2006 Trillium Award

Winner 2006 Ottawa Book Award

Shortlisted
2006 Lampert Award

Winner 2006
People's Poetry
Prize

Winner 2005 Lampert Award, shortlisted Trillium

Shortlisted 2005 Lampert Award

Winner 2004 CAA Award, shortlisted
Lampert

Winner
BC Book Prize for Poetry

2005 International White Raven
Selection

Winner 2004 Lampert, shortlisted Trillium

Shortlisted
2003 Governor General's Award for Poetry

Shortlisted
2002 Pat Lowther Award

Rob Winger's Muybridge's Horse was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and the 2007 Governor General's Award for Poetry. Now it has been shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award along with Elizabeth Hay, Frances Itani, Joanne Proulx and Mary Borsky. Congratulations Rob! (again)

George Murray was officially shortlisted for the Atlantic Poetry Prize for his new Nightwood collection The Rush to Here and unofficially shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Prize. He read in Ottawa August 26 at the Tree Reading Series.

He was scheduled to be back in Ontario September 12 to read in Toronto at the IV Lounge, but then the series got cancelled. Adam Getty had been scheduled to read there in September, too. Nightwood has had numerous authors read at the IV Lounge over the years and in fact this series has a very frequent backdrop to the early development of Nightwood's current incarnation. We're all going to miss it, and especially during a time of more cutbacks to cultural funding, so will the entire country.

Six Ways to Sunday Shortlisted for the ReLit

OK, so we're really late in "announcing" that Christian McPherson's Six Ways to Sunday was shortlisted for the ReLit Ring for Short Fiction. The fact is, we still hadn't finished making our way through the longlist yet by the time the shortlist came out. And now, winners have even been announced! No Six Ways, but Friend of Nightwood Gillian Wigmore won the Poetry Ring for Soft Geography. Congrats Gillian and congrats Christian!

Getty in Audio
Adam Getty's interview with Jennifer LoveGrove on In Other Words (CLKN, 88.1FM) is available as an MP3 download here. It does take awhile to download, and the interview with Adam doesn't start until about 11 minutes, 27 seconds. Thank you Jennifer and CLKN for doing this intreview and posting the MP3!

The Lost Coast Wins in Alberta!
Tim Bowling's The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture has won the Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction at the Alberta Book Prizes. It was also shortlisted for the prestigious Writers' Trust of Canada Non-fiction prize and the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional BC Book Prize, and longlisted for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-fiction. In addition, it has been selected as a 2008 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book. Also this year, Bowling received the Guggenheim Fellowship, one of North America’s most prestigious awards. Bowling is one of only three Canadians to receive the Fellowship, and the only Canadian writer.

Novelist, poet and filmmaker John Stiles read from his long-awaited new novel, Taking the Stairs, in Wolfville, St. Catharines, Fonthill, Niagara Falls, New York, Ottawa, Toronto and Halifax. Now he's back home in London, so the next best thing is to buy the book.

"Take My Book, Please"
Caught in the middle of a nation-wide debate over the hot topic of copyright, John Degen has unleashed a barrage of intellectual property that no one else could've ever dreamed up: his book. John's novel The Uninvited Guest, shortlisted for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award only last year, is now available as a FREE PDF at John's website. If you like enough of what you see to covet the real thing, you may, of course, purchase it right here through our distributor. John has written an essay on the release at The Globe & Mail.

Birch Split Bark Wins City
of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize

Diane Guichon has won the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, for her first poetry collection Birch Split Bark. Congratulations, Diane! Roberta Rees and Glen Dresser were the other nominees. The $5,000 prize will be presented at a ceremony on June 10.

Wong Wins BC Book Prize!

Rita Wong's new collection of poetry, Forage, has won the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize for Poetry. Congratulations Rita! Wong's new collection was reviewed by George Elliott Clarke as a "fierce achievement . . . a formidable fusion."