Cool Canadian Crime...CWC Author Events (May 2008)

 

CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA (CWC)
is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Awards

The winners will be announced at the Arthur Ellis Awards dinner on Thursday, June 5, at the Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel. Tickets for the dinner are $75 each and can be ordered by sending a cheque, made out to Crime Writers of Canada, for the number of tickets you want to:

Crime Writers of Canada
2008 Arthur Ellis dinner
3007 Kingston Rd., Box 113
Toronto, ON   M1M 1P1

Please include your e-mail address and/or phone number. The dinner entrée choices are butternut squash agnolotti (vegetarian) or breast of chicken. Please indicate which entrée you prefer. The deadline for ordering tickets is Friday, May 30.

The Marriott Eaton Centre Hotel is located at 525 Bay Street (just south of Dundas). Dinner is at 7:00 p.m.

For more information about the Arthur Ellis Awards, this year’s nominees, or the dinner, please contact Cheryl Freedman at info@crimewriterscanada.com.

Once again, the CWC would like to thank everyone in the Canadian publishing community for making the Arthur Ellis Awards such a success through the years. We’d also like to express our gratitude to:

• Sleuth of Baker Street mystery book store in Toronto for donating the cash prize for Best Novel

• Book City in Toronto for donating the cash prize for Best First Novel

• McArthur & Company for donating the cash prize for the Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel. McArthur will also read the winning manuscript with the possibility of publishing it in mind.
   

2008 Arthur Ellis Awards Shortlists

Best Short Story
Vicki Cameron, “Eight Lords A’Leaping” in Locked Up (Deadlock Press)
Maureen Jennings, “Wreckwood” in Blood on the Holly (Baskerville Books)
D.J. McIntosh, “The Hounds of Winter” in Blood on the Holly (Baskerville Books)
Rick Mofina, “As Long as We Both Shall Live” in Blood on the Holly (Baskerville Books)
Leslie Watts, “Turners” in Kingston Whig-Standard (July 7, 2007)

Best Non-Fiction
Rodrigo Bascunan & Christian Pearce, Enter the Babylon System (Random House Canada)
Robert J. Hoshowsky, The Last to Die: Ronald Turpin, Arthur Lucas, and the End of Capital Punishment in Canada (Hounslow/Dundurn)
Julian Sher, One Child at a Time: The Global Fight to Rescue Children from Online Predators (Random House Canada)
Brian Vallée, The War on Women: Elly Armour, Jane Hurshman, and Criminal Violence in Canadian Homes (Key Porter)
Paul Watson, Where War Lives (McClelland & Stewart)

Best Juvenile
Anita Daher, Racing for Diamonds (Orca)
Anita Daher, Spider’s Song (Puffin Canada)
Vicki Grant, I.D. (Orca)
Shane Peacock, Eye of the Crow (Tundra)
Drew Hayden Taylor, The Night Wanderer (Annick Press)

Best Crime Writing in French
Mario Bolduc, Tsiganes (Libre Expression)
Johanne Seymour, Le Cercle des Pénitents (Libre Expression)
Pierre H. Richard, GHB: Grossier, Horrible et Bête (Editions Pratiko)
Diane Vincent, Epidermes (Triptyque)
Norbert Spehner, Scènes de Crimes: Enquêtes sur le Roman Policier Contemporain (Alire)

Best First Novel
Claire Cameron, The Line Painter (HarperCollins)
Sean Chercover, Big City, Bad Blood (William Morrow/HarperCollins)
Liam Durcan, García’s Heart (McClelland & Stewart)
Susan Parisi, Blood of Dreams (Penguin Australia)
Sharon Rowse, The Silk Train Murder (Carroll & Graf)
Marc Strange, Sucker Punch (Castle Street Mysteries/Dundurn)

Best Novel
Linwood Barclay, No Time for Goodbye (Bantam)
Terry Carroll, Snow Candy (Mercury Press)
Maureen Jennings, A Journeyman to Grief (McClelland & Stewart)
Louise Penny, The Cruellest Month (McArthur & Company)
Jon Redfern, Trumpets Sound No More (RendezVous Crime/Napoleon & Company)

Best Unpublished First Crime Novel (the Unhanged Arthur)
Patricia Flewwelling, Mummer’s the Word
D.J.  McIntosh, The Witch of Babylon
Amy Tector, The Paris Letters
Kevin Thornton, Condemned

We’d like to thank our 2008 AE judges for their hard work in making some very tough decisions. In alphabetical order:

¨  Gail Bowen, award-winning crime author (Joanne Kilbourn series) and author of children’s radio and stage plays
¨  Caterina Edwards, award-winning short story author
¨  Anne Emery, award-winning crime author and lawyer
¨  Elaine Freedman, editor (stand-in for the late Ed Hoch)
¨  Nicole Florent, writer
¨  Louise Godbout-Legault, librarian, Southern Ontario Library Service
¨  Margaret Goldik, editor, Montreal Review of Books
¨  Don Graves, mystery reviewer, The Hamilton Spectator
¨  Margaret Henry, librarian and former head mystery/suspense buyer for Toronto Public Library
¨  Ann Lamontagne, winner of the 2005 French AE award
¨  Ann Ledden, VP Sales, McArthur & Company
¨  Harold Levy, criminal lawyer and investigative journalist
¨  Jan Oddie, mystery fan
¨  Gillian O’Reilly, editor, Canadian Children’s Book News
¨  Louise Penny, winner of five awards for her first novel, Still Life
¨  Maggie Siggins, winner of the 1986 AE for best true crime book
¨  Phyllis Simon, owner, Vancouver Kidsbooks bookstore
¨  Jeannette Sloniowski, popular culture professor, Brock U., and co-creator of the online Crime Fiction Canada database
¨  Caro Soles, author and writing instructor, George Brown College
¨  Michael Steinberg, editor, Storyteller magazine
¨  Lynne van Luven, editor and creative writing professor, U of Victoria

 

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