Canisia
Lubrin
Canisia Lubrin is a writer, editor, critic, and teacher published and anthologized internationally, with translations of her work adapted into Spanish, Italian, and forthcoming in French and German. Her poetry debut Voodoo Hypothesis was named a CBC Best Book. Lubrin’s fiction has been shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award and longlisted for the Journey Prize. She has also served as the 2019 Writer-in-Residence at Queen’s University and poetry faculty for the Banff Centre’s Emerging Writers Intensive. In 2020, she was named a Writers’ Trust Rising Star. The Dyzgraphxst is her second poetry book. Lubrin holds an MFA from the University of Guelph and lives in Whitby.
Juror History
Program History
2020
Rising Stars
- Awards
- Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
- Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
- Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers
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