Individual Nominee Highlights
- For the Best Emerging Writer award, judges have included three young writers whose early long-form magazine journalism shows the highest degree of craft and promise. This year’s nominees include Charlotte Alden for a look at Lytton, B.C.’s recovery from the devastating 2022 wildfire, published in Broadview; Geneviève Larochelle-Guy for a deeply reported feature on face transplants, published in Québec Science; and Adin Wagner for a report on the backlog of cases in Ontario’s small claims court, published in The Local.
- Alison Motluk is nominated twice, in Feature Writing for “In Labour at Home,” published by Chatelaine, and in Investigative Reporting for “Waiting Room,” published by Hazlitt.
- Erin Soros is nominated twice, in Essays for “The Prairies Always See You: Speaking with Psychosis,” published by ESC: English Studies in Canada, and in Poetry for “No Help But Laughter,” published by Canadian Literature.
- Lindsay Jones is nominated in both Long-Form Feature Writing and Investigative Reporting for “Who’s Going to Believe Me?,” published in The Walrus.
- Luc Rinaldi has a very impressive five nominations. “Merchant of Death,” published in Toronto Life, is nominated in Long-Form Feature Writing: 6000+ and Investigative Reporting; “The Way of the Gun,” published in Toronto Life, is also nominated for Investigative Reporting; “They Lost Their Kids to Fortnite,” published in Maclean’s, is also nominated for Long-Form Feature Writing: 6000+; and “The Unsteady Reign of Danielle Smith,” published in Maclean’s, is nominated in the Profiles category.
- Michelle Cyca’s contributing writer column in The Walrus is nominated for Best Column, and Michelle is also nominated in Long-Form Feature Writing for “The End of Home Ownership,” published in Maclean’s.
- Nicholas Hune-Brown is nominated in the Profiles category for “Where Has Olivia Chow Been?,” published in The Local, and in Long-Form Feature Writing for “Have You Been to the Library Lately?,” published in The Walrus.
- Raphaëlle Derome is nominated in Feature Writing for “L’incertaine restauration des milieux humides” and in Service Journalism for “Un sourire forcé.” Both articles are published in Québec Science.
- Guillaume Nolet is nominated twice for Photo Essay & Photojournalism, with “Rooms with a Royal View,” published in Alberta Views, and “Crossing Time,” published in Canadian Geographic.
- Robert Carter is nominated twice for Illustration, with “To catch a predator,” published in Report on Business Magazine, and “War and peace,” published in Legion Magazine.
- Nicola Hamilton is nominated twice for Art Direction Grand Prix, with the April/May 2023 issue of Best Health and Serviette Issue No. 3.
