Tanya Bellehumeur - Allatt

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Writing Contests & Awards

WRITING CONTESTS AND AWARDS

2021  – Finalist for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction for Peacekeeper’s Daughter: A Middle East Memoir

2021 – Winner, 2021 Doula Support Foundation’s Birth Story Contest  (2nd place) for “Winter Rose”. 

2020 – Winner, The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Award for Personal Essay (2nd place) for “Terrorist Mythologies”.  

2019 – “Terrorist Narratives”  (first published in Malahat Review) selected and published in Best Canadian Essays of 2019 (forthcoming)

2018 – Finalist in CANSCAIP’s 2018 Writing for Children Awards for “All Alone, War Pigeon” (picture book category)

2017 – Honourable Mention in subTerrain’s 2017 Lush Triumphant Literary Awards for “Sanctuary” (essay published in Fall 2018)

2016  – Honourable Mention in Room Magazine’s 2016 Fiction Contest for “Garbarge Girl” https://roommagazine.com/writing/garbage-girl

2016 – Finalist in Ruminate Magazine’s Spiritual Non-Fiction Contest for “Heaven’s Gate” 

2015  – “Beirut Bombing” (first published in EVENT) selected and published in Best Canadian Essays of 2015

2015 – Finalist in Writers’ Union of Canada Short Fiction Contest for “Carrying War”

2014 – Nominated for a National Magazine Award for the creative non-fiction essay “The Twelfth Year”. Grain Vol. 41.1, Fall 2013

2014 – Nominated for a Western Magazine Award for “The Twelfth Year”.       Grain Vol. 41.1, Fall 2013

2014 – Shortlisted in Top Ten for EVENT Magazine’s Creative Non-Fiction competition for “Beirut Bombing”

2012 – Long-listed for the Writers’ Union of Canada Writing for Children Competition for Touch the Moon (picture book category)

2002 – Top Ten Finalist for EVENT Magazine Creative Non-Fiction Contest #15 for “The Twelfth Year”

GRANTS                     2015 Canada Council for the Arts grant for “The Twelfth Year” memoir project

MEMBERSHIPS

Quebec Writing Federation

CANSCAIP

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