Billy-Ray
Belcourt
Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. His books are This Would is a World, NDN Coping Mechanisms, A History of My Brief Body, and the forthcoming A Minor Chorus. Belcourt has won the Griffin Poetry Prize and has twice been a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award. He lives in Vancouver, where he is an Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
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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