enRoute is a strong supporter of Canadian arts and is once again proud to be a sponsor of the CBC Literary Awards. Over the next six months, we will
be publishing the 2008 winning works of the country’s leading established and up-and-coming writers.

Creative non-fiction

First Prize - In a Garden by Shelagh Plunkett
Second Prize - Vidh by Phyllis Nakonechny

MEMBERS of the jury - Creative non-fiction
Dave Bidini’s books include Tropic of Hockey and Around the World in 571/2 Gigs. The CBC called Bidini, a founding band member of the Rheostatics, “the poet laureate of punk rock and hockey pucks.”	Mark Kingwell is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and the author of 10 books of political and cultural theory. His newest book, Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City, is out this month.	Linda Spalding is co-editor of the literary journal Brick and, most recently, the author of the novel Who Named the Knife. She lives in Toronto with her husband, Michael Ondaatje, a past CBC Literary Award winner.

Poetry

First Prize - Sundress, Fortress, by Jeramy Dodds

MEMBERS of the jury - POETRY
Eighteen Poems, Phil Hall’s first book, was published in 1973. Since then, Hall has been shortlisted for both a Governor General’s Literary Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize. His recent work includes the long poem White Porcupine.	Winnipeg-born, Saskatoon-based Sylvia Legris won the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for her poetry collection Nerve Squall. Her other books include Iridium Seeds and Circuitry of Veins.	Di Brandt’s most recent book is So this is the world & here I am in it. Twice shortlisted for a Governor General’s Literary Award, Brandt holds Brandon University’s Canada Research Chair in Literature and Creative Writing.

Prix littéraires Radio-Canada

*The works of CBC Literary Award-winning writers from 2001 to 2006 have been collected in The Mind’s Eye, published by ECW Press.

*The views expressed by the writers do not represent the views of enRoute, Spafax or Air Canada. Certain readers may be offended by the contents.