Magrath writer in running for CBC prize
By Al Beeber on April 20, 2021.
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com A Magrath writer will find out on Thursday if she has made the short list for the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize.Eryn Price is nominated for her work “Sound is no home.” Price writes both short stories and novels and her work has been published in “Prairie Fire” which earned her an honourable mention in the 2017 fiction contest.
According to CBC, her inspiration for the short-listed work was “working in schools for over a decade, I’ve seen how important language and culture is for children and their success. When that cultural identity is missing for one reason or another, it leaves a wound that only a community can heal…”
Price works for her area’s school division and says she “learns more from her students than they could ever learn from her,” says a CBC press release.
The winner of the contest will receive a $6,000 cash prize from the Canada Council for the Arts and a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The winning submission will also be published on the CBC Books website. Follow @albeebHerald on Twitter 4
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