Vicky Metcalfe Award for Children's Literature: 2024 Winner announced

There is a wonderfully long list of awards announced annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada. They include the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Award, the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, and the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers. Some awards focus on a specific book while others are given to writers based on their body of works. Last night, the awards were announced at an event at the CBC Glenn Gould Studio at which more than $330,000 was handed out to 7 award winners. Among those generous awards is the Vicky Metcalfe Award for Children's Literature which includes a $25,000 prize sponsored by the Metcalfe Foundation.

 

This year's winner of the

 

 Vicky Metcalfe Award for Children's Literature 

 

goes to

 

Sara O'Leary

 

for a body of work which includes the following books:

The Little Book of the Little Brontës (Tundra, 2023) Illus. by Briony May Smith

A Kid is a Kid is a Kid (Groundwood, 2021) Illus. by Qin Leng

Percy's Museum (Groundwood, 2021) Illus. by Carmen Mok

Night Walk (Groundwood, 2020) Illus. by Ellie Arscott

A Family is a Family is a Family (Groundwood, 2016) Illus. by Qin Leng

When I Was Small (Simply Read, 2011) Illus. by Julie Morstad

Where You Came From (Simply Read, 2008) Illus. by Julie Morstad

When You Were Small (Simply Read, 2005) Illus. by Julie Morstad

The event, which was live streamed, can be viewed on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/live/EXe9ANrSQSE or you can check out all the award announcements the Writers' Trust of Canada website at https://www.writerstrust.com/events/writers-trust-awards/.

 

 

Congratulations to Sara O'Leary and all award winners of the Writers' Trust of Canada Awards for 2024.

 

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