Scaachi Koul, Graeme Wood and Kyo Maclear to judge 2018 CBC Nonfiction Prize

Scaachi Koul,Graeme Wood and Kyo Maclear will judge the 2018 CBCNonfiction Prize.

TheCBC Nonfiction Prizerecognizes unpublishedCanadian works of nonfiction. The winning author will receive$6,000 from theCanada Council for the Arts, attend a 10-day writing residency at theBanff Centre for Arts and Creativityand have their story published onCBC Books.Four finalists will win $1,000 from theCanada Council for the Artsand have their story published onCBC Books.

Koulis a senior culture writer for BuzzFeedand the author of the essay collectionOne Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter. Born and raised in Calgary, she writes candidly about being the child of Indian immigrants in the great white north.

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Wood won the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction for his bookThe Way of the Strangers, in whichWood interviewedsupporters, recruiters and sympathizers of ISIS from around the world, including followers fromEgypt, Australia, Great Britain andthe Philippines.He is a contributing editor to The Atlantic and lecturer in political science at Yale University, andthe Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on foreign relations.

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Maclearis an essayist,novelist and author of children's books. Her books have been translated into 15 languages and have been nominated for Governor General's Literary Awards andthe TD CanadianChildren's Literature Award, among others. Her latest book, the memoirBirds Art Life, was a finalist for the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

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The CBC Nonfiction Prizeis now closed. The finalists will be announced in fall 2018.

The 2017 CBC Nonfiction Prize winner was Becky Blake for Trust Exercise.Other past CBCLiterary Prize winners include Michael Winter, Frances Itani and David Bergen.