[Martha Brooks] and [Carol Matas] are competing against 16 other authors. One of those, Alberta's Nicole Luiken, has been nominated for Frost, published by Winnipeg's Great Plains Publications.

The titles are Saskatchewan native W.O. Mitchell's The Devil is a Travelling Man, U.K.-born Malcolm Lowry's short story collection Hear Us O Lord From Heaven Thy Dwelling Place and York University professor Joel Baetz's Canadian Poetry from World War I: An Anthology.

Ontario science-fiction writer Cory Doctorow's Little Brother has been adapted for the stage by Chicago's Griffin Theatre Company.