Join us for the award ceremony for the 2025 Prairie Grindstone Prize! The winner of the $50,000 prize this year is Rona Altrows. Stop by for an evening of readings, conversation, snacks, and light refreshments.
ABOUT THE WINNER
Rona Altrows is a fiction writer, essayist, editor, and playwright who believes that literature has a critical role in the fight for social justice and the advancement of humanism. Her books of short fiction are A Run on Hose, Key in Lock, and At This Juncture. Her writing honours include the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize for A Run on Hose, the Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award, and the inaugural Brenda Strathern Award. Rona has edited or co-edited four theme-based anthologies, including You Look Good for Your Age (University of Alberta Press), an exploration of women, aging, and ageism. Please Don’t Interrupt, edited by Rona and Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike (Griots Lounge Publishing Canada) is a new anthology to be released in fall of 2025, that digs deep into the notion of interruption.
Website: www.ronaaltrows.com
Bluesky: @ronaaltrows.bsky.social
Facebook: @RonaAltrows
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ABOUT THE PRIZE
The Prairie Grindstone Prize recognizes prairie writers of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction with a cash prize of $50,000 that will enable the writer to focus on their work for a year or more. This annual prize, funded by an anonymous donor committee, alternates between the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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