Betsy Trumpener nominated for Relit Award
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Prince George Author Shortlisted for National Literary Award
Caitlin Press congratulates Prince George author and CBC Radio News reporter Betsy Trumpener, whose short story collection The Butcher of Penetang ($17.95, Caitlin Press), has just been shortlisted for The Relit Award for short fiction.
This is Trumpener's second nomination for a national literary award; she garnered a nomination for the prestigious Danuta Gleed Literary Award earlier this year.
Situating her stories from northern BC to rural Ontario to countries at war, Trumpener carves up rare, savoury slices of stories that are both tough and enticing: a child goes missing in a dangerous part of town; a draft dodger finds himself with bloody hands; and a robber is armed with only a hairbrush. The people in these edgy stories cut cocaine into comfort food, push sex into the snow, and chase speeding ambulances in the dead of winter. Writer Susan Musgrave calls the debut "exquisitely crafted glimpses into the beauty of our fragile human lives."
Betsy Trumpener is an award-winning CBC News reporter and radio documentary producer. Her non-fiction and fiction have been published in numerous publications, including the Guardian, the Globe and Mail and This Magazine. She was the first annual Writer in Residence for the CBC arts show, North by Northwest, and she has been awarded a Western Magazine Award for her magazine column, "North of Unreal," a Jack Webster Award for Best Radio Feature, and a Jack Webster Africa Journalism Fellowship.
The ReLit Awards, short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, Relighting Literature, were founded in 2000 and emphasize the importance of ideas over big-money prizes. Winners in the poetry, novel and short fiction categories will be celebrated at a special event during the Ottawa Writer's festival in October. Winners receive the ReLit Ring, which features four moveable dials, each one struck with the entire alphabet.
The other six nominated authors in the short fiction category are Ian Colford for Evidence (Porcupine's Quill), Arjun Basu for Squishy (DC Books), Don McLellan for In the Quiet After Slaughter ((Libros Libertad)), Pamela Stewart for Elysium (Anvil Press), Mark Anthony Jarman for My White Planet (Thomas Allen Publishers) and Lisa Foad for The Night is a Mouth (Exile Editions).
CAITLIN PRESS IS AN INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER
distributed and marketed by Harbour Publishing
To arrange an interview with Betsy Trumpener or to request a copy of The Butcher of Penetang, please contact Marisa Alps or Rachel Page:
marisa@harbourpublishing.com or rachel@harbourpublishing.com
phone: 604-883-2730, fax: 604-883-9451
Caitlin Press email: info@caitlin-press.com, website: www.caitlin-press.com
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Prince George Author Shortlisted for National Literary Award
Caitlin Press congratulates Prince George author and CBC Radio News reporter Betsy Trumpener, whose short story collection The Butcher of Penetang ($17.95, Caitlin Press), has just been shortlisted for The Relit Award for short fiction.
This is Trumpener's second nomination for a national literary award; she garnered a nomination for the prestigious Danuta Gleed Literary Award earlier this year.
Situating her stories from northern BC to rural Ontario to countries at war, Trumpener carves up rare, savoury slices of stories that are both tough and enticing: a child goes missing in a dangerous part of town; a draft dodger finds himself with bloody hands; and a robber is armed with only a hairbrush. The people in these edgy stories cut cocaine into comfort food, push sex into the snow, and chase speeding ambulances in the dead of winter. Writer Susan Musgrave calls the debut "exquisitely crafted glimpses into the beauty of our fragile human lives."
Betsy Trumpener is an award-winning CBC News reporter and radio documentary producer. Her non-fiction and fiction have been published in numerous publications, including the Guardian, the Globe and Mail and This Magazine. She was the first annual Writer in Residence for the CBC arts show, North by Northwest, and she has been awarded a Western Magazine Award for her magazine column, "North of Unreal," a Jack Webster Award for Best Radio Feature, and a Jack Webster Africa Journalism Fellowship.
The ReLit Awards, short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, Relighting Literature, were founded in 2000 and emphasize the importance of ideas over big-money prizes. Winners in the poetry, novel and short fiction categories will be celebrated at a special event during the Ottawa Writer's festival in October. Winners receive the ReLit Ring, which features four moveable dials, each one struck with the entire alphabet.
The other six nominated authors in the short fiction category are Ian Colford for Evidence (Porcupine's Quill), Arjun Basu for Squishy (DC Books), Don McLellan for In the Quiet After Slaughter ((Libros Libertad)), Pamela Stewart for Elysium (Anvil Press), Mark Anthony Jarman for My White Planet (Thomas Allen Publishers) and Lisa Foad for The Night is a Mouth (Exile Editions).
CAITLIN PRESS IS AN INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER
distributed and marketed by Harbour Publishing
To arrange an interview with Betsy Trumpener or to request a copy of The Butcher of Penetang, please contact Marisa Alps or Rachel Page:
marisa@harbourpublishing.com or rachel@harbourpublishing.com
phone: 604-883-2730, fax: 604-883-9451
Caitlin Press email: info@caitlin-press.com, website: www.caitlin-press.com
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