Cree poet and professor Billy-Ray Belcourt and Métis author Carleigh Baker will be co-chairs of the English-language prizes, and Francophone scholars Marie-Eve Bradette and Sarah Henzi will be co-chairs for the French-language prizes.
Six years after the Indigenous Voices Awards (IVAs) were first launched, the conversation about Indigenous literature in Canada has grown exponentially.
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