Congrats to One of Our Favourite People!

Congratulations to Winnipegger Chandra Mayor for winning a 2009 Lambda Literary Award for lesbian fiction! Chandra won for her 2008 short story collection All the Pretty Girls from Conundrum Press which tied with Emma Donoghue’s The Sealed Letter. Full information can be found at http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/current_finalists.html#lesbfiction.

Congratulations to Emma as well, she was our guest in 2000 and we remember her fondly.

Chandra read at our Opening Night; Voices at Oodena at the 2008 THIN AIR Winnipeg International Writers Festival. She is also our regular School Stage host and you’ll be able to find her at the THIN AIR School Stage events from September 21 to 25.

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