Emily
Pohl-Weary
Pohl-Weary has published six books, a series of girl-pirate comics, and her own literary magazine. During her July to September summer residency she worked on a semi-autobiographical novel set in the late 1980s/early 1990s in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood.
Program History
Writer in Residence
2015
Berton House Writers’ Residency- 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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