Congratulations to Rodney DeCroo, who has won this year’s George Ryga Award for his photo essay book, Night Moves. The George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature is a literary award given to a British Columbian author “who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness in a new book published in the preceding calendar year.”

Wilfrid Laurier University has named author Hilary Peach the winner of its 2023 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for her book Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood. The $10,000 prize recognizes Canadian writers for a first or second work of creative non-fiction that includes a Canadian locale or significance.

Congratulations to Conyer Clayton! Her poetry collection, But the sun, and the fish, and the ships, and the waves. has won the 2023 Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry. The prize, given annually, “rec­og­nizes an out­stand­ing book of English-language poetry by an author liv­ing in the National Cap­i­tal Region.” And a further congratulations to Feed Dog Imprint Editor Stuart Ross.