The $60,000 award annually honours the best novel or short story collection published in Canada. The other finalists are Rima Elkouri, Nicholas Herring and Darcy Tamayose.
When most people think of the Prince Edward Island of literature, the image that comes up is of red-haired Anne Shirley and her romantic, sentimental adventures. But there is another, more rugged tradition of Atlantic fiction that has less to do with L.M. Montgomery’s mythologizing and