Recent Award Winners appearing in C36: Liz Howard + Ben Ladouceur

Recent Award Winners appearing in C36: Liz Howard + Ben Ladouceur

Huge congrats to CAROUSEL 36 contributor Liz Howard — who recently won the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize — Jurors called her ambitious debut collection, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent, a work of poems “filled with energy and magic, suspended between competing inheritances, at home in their hyper-modern hybridity”. Congrats also to to CAROUSEL 36 contributor Ben Ladouceur — the newest poet to join the ranks of emerging writers honoured by the Gerald Lampert Memorial

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C35 Contributor Eduardo C. Corral Wins Prestigious Poetry Prize

C35 Contributor Eduardo C. Corral Wins Prestigious Poetry Prize

We’d like to congratulate CAROUSEL 35 contributor Eduardo C. Corral, who just took home the 2016 Holmes National Poetry Prize. This prize was developed in memory of Princeton alumnus Theodore H. Holmes, and is awarded each year by faculty of the Princeton Creative Writing Program to a poet of notable merit. Corral’s debut collection of poems, Slow Lightning, won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and his poems have been featured in Best American

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CAROUSEL’s 4PANEL gets Honourary Mention at 2013 Wright Awards

Even though we didn’t win, CAROUSEL was honoured to have its 4PANEL section receive a nomination for a 2013 Doug Wright Award! We received an Honourary Mention for the ‘Pigskin Peters Award’, which recognizes the best in experimental or avant-garde comics. Congrats to cartoonist David Collier, who won for his book Hamilton Illustrated (published by Wolsak and Wynn). This short clip captures funnyman Scott Thompson struggling to name all the nominated 4PANEL contributors, and then

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CAROUSEL NOMINATED FOR A 2013 DOUG WRIGHT AWARD!

We’re happy to announce that CAROUSEL’s 4PANEL section has been nominated for a DOUG WRIGHT AWARD! We’re a nominee for the ‘2013 Pigskin Peters Award’, which recognizes the best in experimental or avant-garde comics. Other 2013 Wright Awards nominees include industry stalwarts such as Michel Rabagliati, David Collier, Ethan Rilly and Michael DeForge. The 2013 Doug Wright Awards ceremony — Canada’s biggest night in comics — will take place on Saturday, May 11 (a feature

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Adrienne Gruber wins the 2012 bpNichol Chapbook Award

Congrats to poet Adrienne Gruber (who appeared in our pages way back in CAROUSEL 23) on winning the 2012 bpNichol Chapbook Award for her chapbook Mimic, published by Leaf Press of Lantzville, BC. Named for the late poet, novelist, and indie publisher bpNichol (1944-­1988), the prize is awarded to the author of the best language poetry chapbook published in Canada in the previous year, as selected by a panel of judges. Administered by Toronto-based small-press

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