Emergent Voices

Edited by: Robert Weaver

Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, and Gail Anderson-Dargatz are among the winners of the CBC Literary Award who have gone on to become some of the biggest names in Canadian literature. They and other past winners are included in Emergent Voices. For over twenty years, Robert Weaver has coordinated one of Canada’s most important literary awards for emerging writers, the CBC Canadian Literary Awards. Weaver founded the awards and has been tireless in promoting them.

AUTHOR

Robert Weaver

As well as organizing the Canadian Literary Competition, Robert Weaver was fiction editor of Saturday Night. He edited many anthologies, including six editions of Canadian Short Stories and The Anthology Anthology: A Selection from Thirty Years of CBC Radio’s “Anthology”. He co-edited two editions each of The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature and The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English, and he was the editor of Mavis Gallant’s collection The End of the World and Other Stories.

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For twenty years, the CBC Canadian Literary Awards have recognized new and developing writers. In Emergent Voices, Robert Weaver, the godfather of the modern Canadian short story, presents twenty-seven prize-winning stories by authors including Michael Ondaatje, Ernst Havemann, Carol Shields, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Bill Gaston, Frances Itani, W.D. Valgardson, and Gail Anderson-Dargatz. Every selection is a stellar example of the story-writer’s art. In 1979, Robert Weaver founded the Canadian Literary Awards, and he has organized the competition ever since. The CBC has shared sponsorship with various partners, including the Canada Council for the Arts and, since 1994, Saturday Night, which publishes the winning stories.
“A pleasant flow — the tapes would be equally listenable &#8212 to in one long gulp on a car ride, or one story at a time.”
Quill & Quire

“Let these voices transport you.”
Atlantic Books Today

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Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, and Gail Anderson-Dargatz are among the winners of the CBC Literary Award who have gone on to become some of the biggest names in Canadian literature. They and other past winners are included in Emergent Voices. For over twenty years, Robert Weaver has coordinated one of Canada’s most important literary awards for emerging writers, the CBC Canadian Literary Awards. Weaver founded the awards and has been tireless in promoting them.

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Details

Dimensions:

287 Pages
9in * 6in * 0.72in
500gr

Published:

September 01, 1999

Publisher:

Goose Lane Editions

ISBN:

9780864922670

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Anthologies

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Language:

eng

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