November 23, 2011

Nasrallah’s Niko wins this year’s QWF fiction award

Congratulations to Dimitri Nasrallah, recent visiting writer here at THIN AIR 2011 in September. He was the recent winner of the Paragraphe Hugh Maclennan Prize for Fiction for his book NIKO (Vehicule Press; Esplanade Books). All of us here at the WIWF offices are jumping for joy!

To read more about Dimitri's win, and about the Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards, click here.

November 14, 2011

Tarbut: Festival of Jewish Culture - this week!

This week is "Tarbut: festival of Jewish Culture" over at the Rady Jewish Community Centre. Tuesday evening's featured writer is international best-seller Anita Diamant doing a reading & an on-stage interview with THIN AIR's Director Charlene Diehl. Other writers in this week's line-up: Roberta Rich, Alison Pick, & Rhea Tregebov. For more information, visit the website here.

October 21, 2011

Jacob McArthur Mooney shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize!

Canadian poet Jacob McArthur Mooney is one of five emerging authors shortlisted for the 2011 Dylan Thomas Prize, an international competition celebrating young writers. Jacob was very recently part of the THIN AIR 2011 literary festival right here in Winnipeg! We were very glad to have him. Good luck Jacob!

You can read more about the prize and Jacob here:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/10/20/dylan-thomas-prize-finalists-mooney.html

October 4, 2011

Lynn Coady and the Giller Shortlist

The Winnipeg International Writers Festival is proud to announce that Edmonton writer Lynn Coady made the Giller Shortlist along with five other finalists.

We just saw her at THIN AIR 2011, where she was promoting her most recent novel, The Antagonist. It is a fantastic book, and definitely worth the prize!

To read the full story, click here.

October 4, 2011

Winners of the THIN AIR 2011 Raffle!

On Friday, September 23, during our Mainstage performance at the Manitoba Theatre for Young People (MTYP) we drew the three winning tickets for our three wonderful prizes, and the winners were:

1. Linda Norman, who took home the selection of books from various THIN AIR 2011 authors (value $300)

2. Jason Booth, who won the chocolate from Chocolatier Constance Popp and two MTYP flexi-passes (value ($300)

3. C. Thau, who won the two gift baskets from the The Forks and Festival du Voyageur (value $300)

Congratulations to our three winners, and many thanks to everyone who bought a ticket to support THIN AIR 2011. And a BIG THANKS to the wonderful businesses who donated the prizes!!

September 26, 2011

THIN AIR 2011 has come to a close...

Our festival has ended for the year, and what a fantastic week it was!

Thank you to everyone who made THIN AIR 2011 a success, including our hard working volunteers, our venue partners, our sponsors and our wonderful writers. We couldn't have done it without you, and we hope to work with you all again very soon.

Visit our blog to read about some of your favourite events - or possibly the ones you missed! Our blogging team did a fantastic job, and you can read their words by clicking here. 

Also, the winner for the first ever Manitoba Reads competition was announced at our final Mainstage on Saturday, September 24. For complete details about the competition and the winner, click here.

Keep checking our website, because we will be continually posting new information throughout the winter months. And, before you know it, we will be gearing up for THIN AIR 2012!