Top row: Cicely Grace and Emily Yiling Ma. Bottom row: Rachel Robb, Eleonore Schönmaier and Catherine St. Denis.
Read the five works contending for $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a Banff Centre writing residency. The winner will be announced on Nov. 21, 2024.Top row: Cicely Grace and Emily Yiling Ma. Bottom row: Rachel Robb, Eleonore Schönmaier and Catherine St. Denis. CBC Literary Prize winners get a writing residency — Chanel M. Sutherland shares how it's life-changingwas selected from more than 2,700 submissions.
Cicely Grace is a 24-year-old writer based in Vancouver. She holds a degree in English literature from the University of British Columbia, where she specialized in feminism, sexuality and modernist women's writing. Her writing has appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, The Garden Statuary, The Foundationalist and Pulp Literature.
"What's more, it seemed like they were daring me to prove it, to prove I wasn't just a naive little girl.was born out of an attempt to reanimate that girl in her ponytail and first-job uniform, to put her experiences on a page in order to heal her of them. "My relationship with my grandmother has always been punctuated by varying degrees of tension and warmth, tenderness and distance, accompanied by my slow loss of language and ability to communicate with her. My intent was to explore my grandmother's life in Canada and explore the superstitions and beliefs she's held over the years.
"Her sole identity had been crafted around her maternal abilities and this too has been stripped away from her." "I was inspired by the contradictory layers of small-town Ontario history. The image of a palimpsest resonated with me as a metaphor for resistance; despite constant attempts at erasure through time, open hostility and commercialization of land, the presence of Indigenous people endures.
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