Arno
Kopecky
Arno Kopecky is an environmental journalist and author based in Vancouver. His writing has appeared in The Walrus, Foreign Policy, The Globe and Mail, and Reader’s Digest. His first book, The Devil’s Curve, made Amazon’s top-100 list for 2012. His second book, The Oil Man and the Sea, won the 2014 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction and was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Literary Award, the Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize, the Lane Anderson Award for science writing, and the Banff Mountain Book Competition for Adventure Travel.
Juror History
- Awards
- Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
- Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
- Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
- Weston International Award
- Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
- Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
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