ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Shelly Kawaja has won the 2022 BMO Winterset Award for her novel, The Raw Light of Morning. The prize recognizes excellence in writing ...
The annual winner of the award receives $12,500, while each finalist receives $3,000, making it one of Atlantic Canada's richest literary prizes.
Kawaja's The Raw Light of Morning was one of 40 eligible works by Newfoundland and Labrador authors published in 2021.Kawaja is a creative writing student in the University of British Columbia's optional residency MFA program and a graduate of The Humber School for Writers and Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. She has been published in several magazines, including Horseshoe Literary Magazine, The Humber Literary Review, The Dalhousie Review and PACE.
She was long-listed for the Bridge Prize, the Writer’s Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Fresh Fish Award and won the Gritlit short fiction contest. Established in 2000 in honour of Sandra Fraser Gwyn, a St. John’s-born social historian and prize-winning author, the BMO Winterset Award is named after the historic house on Winter Avenue in St. John’s where Gwyn grew up.
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