Announcing the CB Prize Short List
We are thrilled to announce the 2022 carte blanche Prize finalists, as selected by guest juror, Kasia Juno!
The shortlisted writers are Neil Smith (Translation), Meryem Yildiz (Poetry), and Simon Brown (Translation)!
The carte blanche Prize (sponsored by Mark Gallop) is awarded once a year in recognition of an outstanding submission by a Quebec-based writer or translator.
The three shortlisted finalists will be invited to attend the QWF Awards Gala on November 14, 2022, where the winner and runner-ups will be announced. Finalists will all receive cash prizes, and the winner will receive a unique trophy “The Lori” created by Montreal artist, Glen LeMesurier.
Congratulations to our 2022 carte blanche Prize finalists! Read their work at the links below:
- “The Salad Spinner” by Neil Smith (Translation from Philippe Chagnon, Issue 43)
- “Some Kind of Light” by Meryem Yildiz (Poetry, Issue 43)
- “Gardens of Dirty Laundry” by Simon Brown (Translation from Laurence Gagné, Issue 43)
ABOUT GUEST JUROR KASIA JUNO
Kasia Juno Van Schaik is a South African-Canadian writer living in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. Kasia is the author of the linked story collection, We Have Never Lived On Earth (University of Alberta Press), which is a finalist for the Concordia University First Book Prize. Her next book, a work of memoir/cultural criticism entitled Women Among Monuments, is forthcoming in 2024.
As a postdoctoral research fellow at Concordia University, Kasia is currently working on a project that investigates new ways to attend to our landscapes and ecologies through environmental storytelling, feminist artmaking, and collaborative knowledge production. Her writing has appeared in Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Best Canadian Poetry Anthology, The Rumpus, and the CBC. In 2021, she served as a CBC QWF writer-in-residence. Kasia also served as the fiction editor for carte blanche from 2018-2021.