Charlie
Petch
Charlie Petch is a spoken word performer, musician, and playwright. They were Poet of Honour for the speakNORTH festival in 2017. In 2020, they won the Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award for lifetime achievement in spoken word from The League of Canadian Poets. Petch’s debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late, was named one of the best books of 2021 by The Walrus and won the ReLit Award the following year. Their film, Medusa’s Children, premiered with OperaQ in 2022. Petch lives in Tkaronto (Toronto).
Program History
Writer in Residence
2023
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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