{"id":231393,"date":"2019-09-18T02:45:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T06:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=231393"},"modified":"2019-09-18T02:45:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T06:45:26","slug":"tanya-talaga-alicia-elliott-among-all-female-writers-trust-non-fiction-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/18\/tanya-talaga-alicia-elliott-among-all-female-writers-trust-non-fiction-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanya Talaga, Alicia Elliott among all female Writers&#8217; Trust non fiction finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Announcing the $60,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WestonPrize?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WestonPrize<\/a> finalists: Alicia Elliott <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WordsandGuitar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WordsandGuitar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AMindSpreadOutontheGround?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AMindSpreadOutontheGround<\/a>, Anna Mehler Paperny <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amp6?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@amp6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HelloIWanttoDiePleaseFixMe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HelloIWanttoDiePleaseFixMe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TanyaTalaga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TanyaTalaga<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllOurRelations?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AllOurRelations<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AyeletTsabari?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AyeletTsabari<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheArtofLeaving?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheArtofLeaving<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JennyHeijun?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JennyHeijun<\/a> Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cIShrCBbc7\">pic.twitter.com\/cIShrCBbc7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Writers&#39; Trust (@writerstrust) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/writerstrust\/status\/1173902045751009286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All Our Relations by Tanya Talaga is a finalist for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/writerstrust?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@writerstrust<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WestonPrize?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WestonPrize<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TanyaTalaga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TanyaTalaga<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tqZDTF60x1\">https:\/\/t.co\/tqZDTF60x1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VUfZ8cnGMn\">pic.twitter.com\/VUfZ8cnGMn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CBC Books (@cbcbooks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbcbooks\/status\/1174050390834393090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott is a finalist for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/writerstrust?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@writerstrust<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WestonPrize?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WestonPrize<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WordsandGuitar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WordsandGuitar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tqZDTFnBoz\">https:\/\/t.co\/tqZDTFnBoz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zn0Oz3wjHe\">pic.twitter.com\/Zn0Oz3wjHe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CBC Books (@cbcbooks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbcbooks\/status\/1174020192856231937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Toronto journalist Tanya Talaga and Indigenous writer Alicia Elliott are among the nominees for the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers&#8217; Trust Prize for Nonfiction.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say it&#8217;s the first time all the finalists shortlisted for the prize are women.<\/p>\n<p>Talaga received a nod for &#8220;All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward,&#8221;\u00a0published by House of Anansi Press. Based on her 2018 CBC Massey Lecture, the work explores the rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott, a Tuscarora writer of Six Nations of the Grand River, is in the running for &#8220;A Mind Spread Out on the Ground&#8221;\u00a0(Doubleday Canada). Her collection of essays provides a personal look at the consequences of Canada&#8217;s treatment of Indigenous Peoples.<\/p>\n<p>Talaga won the RBC Taylor Prize in 2018 for &#8220;Seven Fallen Feathers&#8221;\u00a0and mentored Elliott, who was the winner of the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award that same year.<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Heijun Wills, an associate professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, is also a Writers&#8217; Trust contender for her memoir, &#8220;Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The book, published by McClelland &amp; Stewart, follows Wills&#8217; journey reconnecting with her Korean family after being raised by adoptive parents in small-town Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Ayelet Tsabari is being honoured for her memoir &#8220;The Art of Leaving&#8221;\u00a0(HarperCollins Publishers) tracing her travels after serving in the Israeli army as she grapples with her Mizrahi-Jewish identity.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the short list is Toronto-based Anna Mehler Paperny for her journalistic examination of her own experience with mental illness in &#8220;Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person,&#8221;\u00a0published by Random House Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The five finalists, who each receive $5,000, were selected by jurors Ivan Coyote, Trevor Herriot, and Manjushree Thapa.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be announced at the Writers&#8217; Trust Awards ceremony on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing the $60,000 #WestonPrize finalists: Alicia Elliott @WordsandGuitar #AMindSpreadOutontheGround, Anna Mehler Paperny @amp6 #HelloIWanttoDiePleaseFixMe, @TanyaTalaga #AllOurRelations, @AyeletTsabari #TheArtofLeaving &amp; @JennyHeijun &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":231402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231403,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231393\/revisions\/231403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}