The Warland Award celebrates hybridity and excellence in literary achievement with the support of Vancouver Writers Fest. Each year, the Blending Genres panel welcomes authors whose books span genres to be in conversation with one another. Making space for books, whether they are submitted to the Warland Award for consideration or not, is an act of support for all authors who are pushing the limits of what their work can do.
This yearly event has been attended annually by Betsy Warland, whose extemporaneous remarks set the tone for the discussion of craft and discipline. We’ve been lucky to have our judges in attendance, too!
Our panelists over the years include:
2024
Canisia Lubrin, Code Noir
Sarah Leavitt, Something, Not Nothing: a story of grief and love
Alison McCreesh, Degrees of Separation: a decade north of 60
Michael Turner, Playlist: a profligacy of your least expected poems
2023
Christina Wong and Daniel Innes, Denison Avenue
Helen Cova, Autosarcophagy
Jason Guriel, The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles
2022
Jónína Kirton, Standing in a River of Time
Tara McGuire, Holden After & Before
Stuart Ross, The Book of Grief and Hamburgers
2021
Hiromi Goto, Shadow Life
Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Bramah and the Beggar Boy
Harold R. Johnson, The Björkan Sagas
