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Thistledown Press gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program for its publishing program.
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Events May 2008 3—CHRISTOPHER MILLIN reading at Chapters, 20015 Langley Byp, Langley, BC. 27—RONA ALTROWS reads at a Fictionista's event at Auburn Saloon, 163-115 9th Ave SE, Calgary, AB, at 7 pm. 29—MARTY CHAN reads at McNally Robinson, 3130 8th St E, Saskatoon, SK at 7 pm 30—Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Willow Awards Gala . MARTY CHAN nominated for the Diamond Willow Award 31—DEBBIE SPRING launches BREATHING SOCCER at the Thornhill Community Centre Library, 7755 Bayview Ave, Thornhill, ON at 1 pm. June 2008 5—STEPHEN HENIGHAN reads at Pulp Fiction Books, 2422 Main St, Vancouver, BC at 7 pm. 6—STEPHEN HENIGHAN reads at Black Stilt Coffee Lounge, #103 – 1633 Hillside Avenue, Victoria, BC, at 8 pm. 7—KEVIN MARC FOURNIER signing at McNally Robinson, Polo Park location, 1485 Portage Avenue , at 12 pm, and at McNally Robinson, Grant Park location, 1120 Grant Avenue, at 2 pm.Winnipeg, MB. Fournier is the winner of the 2007 McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award for SANDBAG SHUFFLE September 2008 28—EILEEN KERNAGHAN is launching WILD TALENT at White Dwarf Books, New Westminster, BC. |
Awards/Nominations 2008 Awards
Boundary Country by Tom Wayman is shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The award recognizes the best first English-language collection of short fiction by a Canadian author published in 2007. Where the Rocks Say Your Name by Brenda Hasiuk has been nominated for the 2008 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer and Sandbag Shuffle by Kevin Marc Fournier has been nominated for the 2008 McNally-Robinson Award for Best Book for Young People, Manitoba Book Awards. First Mountain by Paulette Dubé has been shortlisted for the 2008 Stephen G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, Alberta Literary Awards. The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul by Marty Chan has been shortlisted for the 2008 R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature, Alberta Literary Awards. Post by Arley McNeney has been shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Canada and Caribbean Region, for Best First Book. Phantom Limb (Theresa Kishkan) and Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden (Don Gayton) are shortlisted for the 2008 Hubert Evans Non Fiction BC Book Prize. 2007 Awards R.P. MacIntyre (Feeding At Nine) winner of the 2007 Saskatchewan Book Award for Children's Literature Marty Chan (The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul) was nominated for the 2007 Arthur Ellis Crime Writers of Canada Award in the Best Juvenile category, and the 2007 Saskatchewan Young Readers Choice Diamond Willow Award. Rona Altrows (A Run On Hose) and Neil McKinnon (Tuckahoe Slidebottle) are shortlisted for the 2007 Howard O'Hagen Alberta Book Award for Short Fiction. Brenda Hasiuk (Where the Rocks Say Your Name) was nominated for four 2007 Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards: McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award; John Hirsh Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer; Eileen MacTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author; and, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction. Josh & the Magic Vial by Craig Spence was nominated for the 2007 Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature BC Book Prize Featherless Bipeds by Richard Scarsbrook was shortlisted for the 2007 CLA Young Adult Book Award Tuckahoe Slidebottle by Neil McKinnon was nominated for the 2007 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour The Mystery Of the Graffiti Ghoul by Marty Chan was shortlisted for the 2007 Golden Eagle Children's Choice Book Award. The
Adventure's of Caraway Kim...Southpaw by award-winning screenwriter,
Don Truckey was shortlisted for the 2007 Rocky Mountain Book Award
(Alberta Children in Literacy Program) 2006 Awards A Run On Hose by Rona Altrows won the 2006 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. The award recognizes literary achievement by Calgary authors. |