Poet Em Dial wins PEN Canada's New Voices Award for 2020
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Thursday, August 27, 2020
TORONTO, Aug.27, 2020 /CNW/ -Emily (Em) Dial has been chosen as the winner of PEN Canada's 2020 New Voices Award.
Key Points:
- TORONTO, Aug.27, 2020 /CNW/ -Emily (Em) Dial has been chosen as the winner of PEN Canada's 2020 New Voices Award.
- Em Dial, 25, is a queer, triracial poet, grower, and educator originally from California.
- "Good writing connects, and this poem does that on so many levels," said the 2020 jury in its summary.
- The 2020 Jury includedScotiabank Giller Prize-winning authors Ian Williams and Lynn Coady and the broadcaster and novelist Bill Richardson.