The Quebec Writers' Federation recently released the nominees for their annual awards. The federation shines the spotlight on excellence in writing by Quebec authors in six categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, first book, translation, and children's and young adult literature.

We'd like to offer our congratulations to:

Alex Eptstein & Tradewind Books for The Circle Cast for the Children's and Young Adult Literature Prize

Dimitri Nasrallah & Vehicule Press for Niko for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction

Judith Cowan & Vehicule Press for Meridian Line for the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation -- French-English, for the translation of Paul Belanger's Origine des meridiens (Editions du Noroit)

Ann Scowcroft & Brick Books for The Truth of Houses for the Concordia University First Book Prize

Gabe Foreman & Coach House Books for A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People for the Concordia University First Book Prize and the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry

Asa Boxer & Vehicule Press for Skullduggery for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry

The winners will be announced at a gala event hosted by Kaie Kellough in Montreal on November 22nd at the Lion d'Or. To view a full list of the nominees please visit the QWF website.