Les Prix Golden Cherry Awards: Ottawa-Gatineau’s premier arts awards show
Friday, September 5, 2008, 7:00pm – 11:00pm (various price schemes, $20 at door for most)
Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts and Humanities
After-party at Galerie SAW Gallery from 11PM to 2AM (free)
Over dour dozen categories of awards cover theatre, art, music, architecture, graphic design, writing, dance, radio, critics, volunteers and best events. The nominees were announced 2 days before event. Here’s the literature subset for 2008.
LITERATURE / LITTÉRATURE
Poet of the year (written word) / Poète de l’année
Tina Charlebois
Marcus McCann
rob mclennan
Monty Reid
Rob Winger
Poet of the year (spoken word) / Artiste de la création parlée de l’année
John Akpata
Danielle K.L. Grégoire
Mehdi Hamdad
Oni the Haitian Sensation
Ritallin a.k.a. Greg Frankson
Playwright of the year / Dramaturge de l’année
Pierre Brault
Maureen Chaume
David O’Meara
Fiction work of the year / Roman ou recueil de nouvelles de l’année
The Company We Keep (Gabriella Goliger)
Late Nights on Air(Elizabeth Hay)
L’Œil de la lumière (Pierre Raphaël Pelletier)
Remembering the Bones (Francis Itani)
white (rob mclennan)
Non-fiction work of the year / Å’uvre non romanesque de l’année
Enfances dévastées, tome 1 : L’Enfer de la prostitution (Richard Poulin)
Nellie McClung (Charlotte Gray)
Ottawa: The Unknown City (rob mclennan)
Subverting the Lyric (rob mclennan)
Peter Pritchard for / pour Upfront Magazine