Appreciation!
June 7th, 2010
Hey, I won Gold at the National Magazine Awards in the Arts category, for this Toronto Life article. I was in Italy and missed the party, but it’s very cool to have finally won one of these. Here’s my Oscar-y speech: Thanks to Sarah Fulford and Mark Pupo, fantastic editors both. See — no orchestra cut-off!
And this happened a while ago (loop, I am out of thee), but I was really pleased to see How Happy to Be short-listed as part of an on-line response to CBC’s Canada Reads series, called Canada Reads 2010: Independently. Alas, the book didn’t win, but I loved the blogosphere discourse around these under-celebrated novels; thoughtful and respectful and very smart. I bow down to any contest that promotes Carrie Snyder and Ray Robertson. And while I wrote a lot of undergrad papers on Martha Ostenso, I feel like I’ve never read Wild Geese because I was too busy grade-grubbing. Will now check out all these books. Thanks, bloggers.