Iryn
Tushabe
Iryn Tushabe is a Ugandan-Canadian writer and journalist. Her creative non-fiction has appeared in Briarpatch, adda, Prairies North, and on CBC Saskatchewan. Her short fiction has been published in Grain, The Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series, and The Journey Prize Stories, and has been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing. She is currently finishing her debut novel.
Award History
Works recognized by WT
- 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 LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
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