So said the National Post after the announcement Wednesday of this year’s finalists for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. I’m the publicist for the Writers’ Trust Awards, and this Wednesday morning we announced the finalists  at a press conference at Ben McNally Books in Toronto.

They are:
Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

Clarke Blaise, The Meagre Tarmac
Michael Christie, The Beggar’s Garden
Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues
Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
Dan Vyleta, The Quiet Twin

Writers’  Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize

Seyward Goodhand, “The Fur Trader’s Daughter”
Miranda Hill, “Petitions to Saint Chronic”
Ross Klatte, “First-Calf Heiffer”

Here’s what some of the media had to say.
Globe & Mail
National Post
Toronto Star
Vancouver Sun
Victoria Times Colonist
Quill & Quire
CBC