Biblioasis has announced the shortlist for the 2010“2011 Metcalf-Rooke Award for fiction. Seven unpublished manuscripts were selected from more than 60 entries. The winner, announced on Dec. 15, will receive $1,500 and a publishing contract with the Windsor, Ontario, press. The nominees are:
- Laura Boudreau, Cat in Winter
- Nancy Cullen, The Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
- Colette Maitland, Keeping the Peace
- Anakana Schofield, Malarky: A Novel in Episodes
- Claire Tacon, In the Field
- Sonia Tilson, The Monkey-Puzzle Tree
- Alice Peterson, All the Voices Cry