Cassie Stocks has won the 2013 Leacock Memorial Medal for humour for her debut novel Dance, Gladys, Dance (NeWest Press).
The other shortlisted titles were:
- Terry Fallis, Up and Down (McClelland & Stewart)
- Jonathan Goldstein, I’ll Seize the Day Tomorrow (Penguin Canada)
- Andrew Kaufman, Born Weird (Random House Canada)
- William Whitehead, Words to Live By (Cormorant Books)
Stocks will receive her $15,000 prize at the Leacock gala dinner, June 8 in Orillia, Ontario.