2022 Alberta Literary Awards Shortlist
Is there anything that we love more at #ReadAlberta than celebrating our local authors and publishers? Hmmm… nope, there’s not! That’s why we are delighted to see the Alberta Literary Awards and Cities of Edmonton and Calgary Book Prize shortlists come out. Heartfelt congratulations to all the finalists!
You can get the full details here, on the Writer’s Guild of Alberta site. But we’d like to make a special mention of the Alberta-published books on the list, as well as books by a few Read Alberta contributors:
Finalist for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
Rayanne Haines 
Published: Apr 15, 2021 by Frontenac House Ltd.
ISBN: 9781989466216
Read an interview with Rayanne Haines about this book.
Check out Rayanne’s podcast, Crow Reads.
Finalist for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
Tyler Engström 
Published: Nov 04, 2021 by Frontenac House Ltd.
ISBN: 9781989466278
Finalist for the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama
Eugene Stickland
, Crystal Phillips
, Bin Hu 
Published: Oct 01, 2021 by Durvile Publications
ISBN: 9781988824703
Finalist for the 2022 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
Glen Huser 
Published: May 15, 2021 by NeWest Press
ISBN: 9781774390115
Finalist for the 2022 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize and the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction
Premee Mohamed 
Published: Sep 28, 2021 by ECW Press
ISBN: 9781770415935
Listen to the Crow Reads interview with Premee Mohamed here.
Finalist for the Short Story Collection Award
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike 
Published: Nov 26, 2021 by Griots Lounge Publishing Canada
ISBN: 9781777688400
Finalist for the Short Story Collection Award
Finalist for the Short Story Collection Award
Lori Hahnel 
Published: Oct 22, 2020 by Great Plains Publications
ISBN: 9781773370460
Read an interview with Lori Hahnel here.
Finalist for the Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award

“Bad Extra”
by Ali Bryan, who has two books published with Freehand Books.
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