THIN AIR 2008 Award Winners

THIN AIR consistantly hosts award winning writers and I thought I would take the time to share some with you from this past festival.

We would like to send out our contratulations to Joseph Boyden, whose novel Through Black Spruce won the prestigious Giller Prize. Two other featured writers from this past festival won awards at the eighth annual Wrtiers’ Trust Awards. Miriam Toews received the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for The Flying Troutmans and Saleema Nawaz won the Journey Prize for a short story published in Prairie Fire. Pas tfestival participant, Michael Winter, won the Notable Author Award.

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