Dene writer Kerissa Dickie is a finalist in the unpublished prose in English category for her story Seh Woo, My Teeth. Riddle is not the only past CBC Literary Prizes finalist to be shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices awards this year. An excerpt from the book was shortlisted for the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize. Nêhiyaw writer Emily Riddle is nominated in the published poetry in English category for her debut collection The Big Melt, which examines what it means to repair kinship, contend with fraught history, go home and contemplate prairie ndn utopia in the era of late capitalism and climate change. He has also published a short collection of poetry, Pleasure Dome Poems and his work has appeared in publications such as Prism International and the Hart House Review.Ĭody Caetano's memoir explores a tangled family history

Canada Reads winner Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead optioned for TV adaptationĪnishinaabe writer Cody Caetano is nominated in the same category for his memoir Half-Bads in White Regalia. The story is about his tumultuous childhood and breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma, and was on the Canada Reads 2023 longlist.He is also the author of the Canada Reads 2021-winning novel Jonny Appleseed and the poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer. His next book, Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling, is a dialogue with writer Angie Abdou and will be published later in 2023.

Whitehead is an Oji-nêhiyaw, two-spirit writer, poet and Indigiqueer scholar from Peguis First Nation. Whitehead is nominated in the published prose in English category for his personal essay collection Making Love with the Land, which explores Indigeneity, queerness and identity. Joshua Whitehead is among the 32 writers shortlisted for the sixth annual Indigenous Voices Awards.

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