Jasmine
Sealy
Jasmine Sealy is a Barbadian-Canadian writer based in Vancouver, BC. Her short stories and non-fiction have appeared in The New Quarterly, Cosmonauts Avenue, Prairie Fire, Room, Best Canadian Stories 2021, and elsewhere. In 2017, she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and in 2020 she won the HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd/University of British Columbia Prize for Best New Fiction for her debut novel, The Island of Forgetting.
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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